| 单词 | tedious |
| 例句 | Pomp is a fellow given to dreams, and did not much mind his tedious days nor his isolate, swampy environs. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z My journey seemed tedious—very tedious: fifty miles one day, a night spent at an inn; fifty miles the next day. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z C. P. Ellis: hurting and hurtful, possessed of all the tedious, creaking, accumulated hatreds of the South, and yet guileless and—Riddick believed—essentially honorable. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The cross-stitch itself was tedious, but the prospects were beautiful; Mother had the foresight to give me a botanical motif, knowing how I love green and growing things. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The other three were routine matters, though the second one would probably mean some tedious wading through lists of figures. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z But it was never as tedious as my friends had warned me it would be. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Ascending Everest is a long, tedious process, more like a mammoth construction project than climbing as I’d previously known it. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z His travel involves something called systems checks, which sounds kind of tedious to me. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The job is both horrific and unbelievably tedious. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z But in the end all we have is a tedious mixture of atoms. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s very tedious and overwhelming, but satisfying at the same time. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z It was tedious work, and in August when the acorns were ready, I found that they made better flour and were much easier to handle. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The thought of spending the rest of the day copying out the tedious Book of Numbers sobered me deeply as I watched my father go. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It was not hard work, but it was a tedious chore I could do when I didn’t have help, so Bando and I started on the waterwheel.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Jem preached the longest, most tedious sermon she ever heard in her life. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z By far the major portion of the book was devoted to spinsterish discourses on prison life—bad food, hijinks in the exercise yard, tedious little jailbird hobbies. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Ominously, there were many cobwebbed boxes piled on a table where Harry was clearly supposed to sit; they had an aura of tedious, hard, and pointless work about them. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z That afternoon she spent a tedious hour assisting Ana in dressing for dinner, and that evening the house was full of ladies in rich satin gowns and gentlemen wearing plush velvet and shining boots. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He recalled the incidents in tedious detail and was still puzzled. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Now, after stretching his wings he retracts them again, stretches out his head, and waddles, making his tedious way up one branch and down another. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Hazel could recall Hawkbit—a rather slow, stupid rabbit whose company for five snowbound days underground had been distinctly tedious. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Killing each separate louse is a tedious business when a man has hundreds. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Quite often it was tedious, and I’m not telling you the half of it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z So I struggled to attend to the tedious speeches. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z In one way, he found making the phony tapes tedious; in another, he liked the simple sensation of it — pushing the tabs, feeling them latch. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z There they separated out 93 by repeating a tedious sequence of heating, evaporating, dissolving, precipitating, and centrifuging over three long days. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “I mean, it’s good to have times when it’s not all about me, as tedious and exhausting as it may be.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “Nomads, for the most part. We’ve all lived that way at times. It gets tedious, like anything else. But we run across the others now and then, because most of us prefer the North.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z To a greater or lesser degree, most members of the reporting team performed similar feats of tedious investigation before finding characters who would personify the statistical trends. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Even in sheltered areas, under an umbrella of conifers, the snow was nearly knee deep and tedious to churn through. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z There was a wicked point to all the sewing and cooking that they were trying to impress upon me, the tedious lessons I had been spurning and ducking. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The reader probably still has some questions, but unfortunately, from here on in, the answers tend to be long and tedious. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z The work was tedious and difficult; it was not strenuous enough to keep us warm but it was demanding enough to make all our muscles ache. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Together, they handle some of the more tedious time-management tasks Clock Watchers are responsible for.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Evolution is still an infinitely long and tedious biologic game, with only the winners staying at the table, but the rules are beginning to look more flexible. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Building a new canoe was backbreaking, tedious work that cost the expedition precious time. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Once they hauled the cargo upstairs to their lab, they let it cool for a week before beginning the tedious process of reduction, oxidation, precipitation, and extraction. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z A whole dimension of drudgery—the tedious, mad, really quite pointless business of stepping over every inch of rocky ground between Georgia and Maine—had been removed. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Garden paths can turn the experience of reading from an effortless glide through a sentence to a tedious two-step of little backtracks. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “I’m almost at the end of the story, so I better have them all. This is tedious.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Nelson drew his knife and knelt to help me with the tedious work of cutting through the tendons and peeling back the pelt. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z And that afternoon playing bezique with Mrs. Van Hopper was not so tedious as it might have been, though my courage failed me and I said nothing of my morning. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z But it would be boring to go through all the tedious details of all the changes in their lives. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z The gulls whose tedious cries woke him each morning now thrilled him as they dipped and flapped across the sky. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z As the testimony continued, much of it tedious legal maneuvering, we began to occupy ourselves with other matters. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He asked her if she was happy, and she answered that no, he was the most boring, tedious snooze of a date she had ever met. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z “I guess it would get tedious after five hundred years.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z To me, it was a magical kingdom; everything was delightful; the chores that were tedious in Qunu became an adventure in Mqhekezweni. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z "Now there is tedious reading if ever I saw it. A sleeping potion, my lord?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “I must say, I hope our classes haven’t become as tedious as all that. Please tell Edmund that, should he choose to attend tomorrow, I shall make an effort to be especially engaging.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Even the contents of the suitcase turned out to be somewhat tedious. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z It was tedious work and sometimes the fumes gave me headaches that lingered all day, but I knew it wasn’t permanent. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z And after Punkin' was placed in an institution, Mary had put in long hours working at the Duke University switchboard, a tedious job that paid low wages. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “How do you do, my dear? I am afraid you have had a tedious ride; John drives so slowly; you must be cold, come to the fire.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z I must confess I find Sonata Form a numbingly tedious subject and am not going to dwell on it. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z My hobby is less tedious, if as strange. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z After a tedious day at the quarry, one did not much feel like working at a stand- up desk. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Part of the satisfaction of the Corelli style is that there is a predictability about its internal movement, and yet it is never tedious. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Of the presumed inhabitants of the moons of Saturn, Huygens therefore wrote: “It is impossible but that their way of living must be very different from ours, having such tedious Winters.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Claire had been given increasingly more demanding tasks in the lab, but they were still tedious and repetitious. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z For they are fortified in such a manner that everyone considers their capture to be a tedious and difficult affair. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z We do not wish to be bothered in the future by such tedious complaints. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Though if the next forty-nine hours and forty-five minutes are this tedious, she doesn’t know if she’ll be able to stand it. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z At the great wooden table where we had spent many a tedious hour studying algebra and the Holy Roman Empire, we now sat down to take stock. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Terror did not engulf me wholly, but crawled along my mind like a tedious paralysis. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a tedious process, but one that held his interest. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z So I spent long tedious hours trying to imitate her tiny, straight, even stitches, and she spent minutes ripping out my work and lecturing me none too gently on how bad it was. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z The stone steps are slippery with morning drizzle as we begin the tedious climb up to the front door of Central Fligh School. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Much of her work came from the sisters Rosenblum downstairs, who did fine finish work and gladly passed along to Mam the more tedious tasks. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Rufus said I didn’t have to, but as tedious as the work was, I could stand it easier than I could stand more long hours of boredom. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “So tell me, Lucille, what have you been doing for company this tedious August?” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Until he finally finds himself tedious and decides to put an end to it. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z But the septa could not have known that today's court would be anything but the usual tedious business of hearing petitions, settling disputes between rival holdfasts, and adjudicating the placement of boundary stones. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z This was when I dealt with the tedious business of cleaning and exercising my physical body. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Shall drop by again next week, if this tedious new job allows. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It became so tedious and draining to watch that I eventually turned my head to the side, trying to keep guard with the corner of my eyes. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z If he was even still listening, he must have considered me a tedious child. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Nothing radical, no hothead stuff, just ringing a few doorbells for Gene McCarthy, composing a few tedious, uninspired editorials for the campus newspaper. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It was tedious work, but it soon yielded fascinating conclusions. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z To find the mass of the mountain from all these numbers required a great deal of tedious calculating, for which a mathematician named Charles Hutton was engaged. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It's a cool morning, and even though I'm twelve now, I don't have a choice—it's cod-liver oil and Latin recitation and the endless, tedious Wohlfahrt viola etudes. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It’s a long and tedious process, but I don’t mind it because I can see Grandma needs this kind of mindless work right now. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z But that’s just it: this tedious existence is starting to make us all disagreeable. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z To continue the historicall narration of these experiments would make a discourse too tedious & confused, & therefore...’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “See that they learn to answer to these. It is very tedious to say ‘Hey, boy!’ or ‘Hey, girl!’ and get no reaction. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z That tedious paragraph was filled with metadiscourse—verbiage about verbiage, such as subsection, review, and discussion. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It was a tedious process, but Ellsberg wasn’t sure what he was going to do with this report, or how long he’d be carrying it around. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z "Don't you think rule-followers are the best people to organize against the Nazis? It's not all daring rescues and explosions. It's a lot of tedious paperwork." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z He was a stonecutter’s apprentice and, tedious though it might be, he had resolved to learn his trade. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z I made a little bitter grin as another soak of blood let itself through the drenched padding and started the tedious journey into my shoes. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Speaking down to the cobblestones, he asked me whether I found the talks as tedious as he did. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Alex hears more about the tedious details of operating a sailboat than he would ever care to know and sends back nothing but: cool. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The last of these quotations is a pastiche, but the other two are real, and all are typical of the inward-looking style that makes academic writing so tedious. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z He would soon see Lucretia, and his vacation meant a break from the tedious business of politics and office seekers. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z This was a tedious assignment, as they ended up waiting around for days and days with nothing much to do. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z In fact, it is so tedious and demanding that many students leave as many as ten or twenty questions blank. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z He refused to see anything about any of us except our most engaging qualities, which he cultivated and magnified to the exclusion of all our tedious and less desirable ones. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The cyclotron’s celebrity as a technological phenomenon fed on itself, fueling its inventor’s preference for engineering and salesmanship over the tedious drudgery of hard science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It was a tedious task, and it wasn't until several tries that they finally found one where a "Nicholas" was registered. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Without a positional notation system, arithmetic is tedious and hard, as schoolchildren learn when teachers force them to multiply or subtract with Roman numerals. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Some people might think of the work as tedious, Wilson said, “but it keeps you busy.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Mingling in this wide swath of strangers shifts my attention from myself, that tedious subject, to the world around me. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z I’m feeling really quite jolly, thanks to the wine and the tedious contents of Tom’s computer. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The factory hours were long and tiring, and the work was tedious. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “I’m almost at the end of the story, so I better have them all. This is tedious.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z During those four weeks in Carthage, McCandless worked hard, doing dirty, tedious jobs that nobody else wanted to tackle: mucking out warehouses, exterminating vermin, painting, scything weeds. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z One suffragist spoke for many when she later explained how tedious the long hours on the picket line often were. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z This was tedious work, too, but now that I had a home and smoked venison and did not have to hunt food every minute, I could do things like make flour. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Reality began its tedious crawl back into their reasoning. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z For many tedious seconds I sat on the edge of my cot, swallowing indecision and tears. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Under an innocent and misleading name, Nugent’s organization carried out all kinds of missions, dangerous, complicated, tedious, and sometimes downright illegal. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Those two cadenzas were the only moments that engaged me in Mr. Subotnick’s tedious piece. Music Review: American Mavericks, with San Francisco Symphony, at Zankel 2012-04-01T18:48:27Z By this point, BP is all but ready to wash its hands of the tedious task of cleaning the oil up. The truth behind the spin: What BP doesn’t want you to know about the Gulf oil spill 2014-05-04T15:00:00Z But the slack shape of the hourlong work, with the company periodically assembling in scattered formations, and soloists emerging for moments of emotional expressionism, quickly grows tedious. Dance Review: Animalistic Capers in LeeSaar’s ‘Grass and Jackals’ 2014-02-11T20:37:00Z That pace flags only occasionally, usually during descriptions of the landscape, which are frequent enough to become slightly tedious. Review | Diane Cook’s ‘The New Wilderness’ is accidentally timely but also timeless 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z The few Shawn revivals I saw in the 1980s looked thin and tedious. Review: Bringing Ted Shawn Back Into the Limelight 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z “Work is dull and tedious,” she wrote, adding, “I can hardly wait to quit.” New York Public Library Acquires Joan Didion’s Papers 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z As it slides wearily into worn-out sex thriller conventions, “Chloe” becomes tedious and mechanical. Movie Review | 'Chloe': Amanda Seyfried Goes on an Undercover Mission 2010-03-26T00:40:00Z As a result, the world’s most tedious minority-interest pressure group has found itself hounded out of its erstwhile strongholds, facing a future of increasing marginalisation, or a radical rebranding as an online home furnishings retailer. 'Satire has had a busy year': how to laugh at the year that was 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z It doesn’t help that she was saddled with the most onerous of the first season’s tedious and nonsensical subplots, which wrapped together adoption, infidelity and a difficult teenage son. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Smash,’ NBC Musical’s 2nd Season, With Jennifer Hudson 2013-02-04T23:16:15Z For reasons too tedious to reveal, I spent a good part of last week in railway arches full of old office furniture. Michael Holden's All ears 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z He found the work tedious, and he began peppering his presentations with some of the stories he had picked up over the years. Baxter Black, Who Elevated Cowboy Poetry to Folk Art, Dies at 77 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z He took issue with everything from Nabokov’s “actual errors of English” to his “tedious and interminable appendix,” but perhaps took greatest aim at Nabokov’s esoteric vocabulary. When Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson went from friends to enemies: 'The Feud' 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z EEG tracking, which self-styled bio-hackers hope can cut out all the tedious years of mindful humility Tibetan monks have to go through to master meditative states. From psychoactive drugs to silent spas: 2018's weirdest wellness trends 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z For viewers unfamiliar with Kiarostami, watching more than an hour of such conversations was perplexing, even tedious. What Makes Kiarostami a Modern Master? Start Here 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z I'm especially tedious when it comes to "Terminator" lines. Patinkin: Alert the media ? I'm talking as if I belong in a movie 2011-07-05T18:37:03Z Some horror fans might enjoy watching these two legendary antagonists cartoonishly brawl, but the violence gets tedious. Godzilla, Kong, Predator, Jason: Everybody Fight! 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z Sure, the town is prim and smothering, but wouldn’t you rather dance your troubles away than return to that pile of tedious self-help books about how to save a lukewarm relationship? Review: ‘Schmigadoon!’ Has a Song in Its Heart, and Everywhere Else 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z As a result, he’s given this series a new subtitle, Tales from Painted Hawaii, to distance it from the tedious Human Centipede of rudderless whimsy that came before. Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy gets funnier the more it apologises for its own rubbishness 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z The Dead, in particular, have benefited from a newly rehabilitated reputation, where memories of the group’s slow and tedious ’80s gigs have been displaced by a hipper narrative of pioneering psychedelia and folk-art. Review | Dave Matthews Band outlasts the rain at Jiffy Lube Live 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z And though the work is in some sense about boredom and waiting, much of it becomes too tedious. ‘Rosas Danst Rosas’ Revisits a Choreographer’s Early Work 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z For modern sensibilities attuned to the fast pace of film, video and television, the convention can become tedious. The music of ‘Catone in Utica’ conquers the night 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z Gack.If you are part of that small percentage of the population who enjoy Sondheim then you'll look past the flaws of this deeply tedious... ‘Into the Woods,’ Disney’s Take on the Sondheim-Lapine Classic 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z What could be more tedious, onstage or in life, than a City Council meeting with little on the agenda besides approving the official record of the last one? Review: ‘The Minutes,’ an Official History of American Horror 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z Glances of longing and sweetness turn tedious; there’s too much acted emotion and not enough action. Review: In ‘Like Water for Chocolate,’ Plot Overtakes Ballet 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z The Newsroom is an exponentially tedious undertaking for the viewer, when really all the show needs to be is slightly sardonic, occasionally frantic and mildly amusing. The Newsroom: 'It's self-indulgent, but it feels so good' – critics have their say 2012-06-25T16:07:00Z Modestly clever, consistently lively, funny in some spots and tedious in others, it’s a shaggy-virus story that holds your attention, if it does, because of its surplus of talent. Review: From ‘The Good Wife’ to the Covid Zombie Apocalypse 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z This work may be tedious, but it can also be profoundly humane. | 'Incendies': Scavenger Hunt for Family Secrets Across Time and Geography 2011-04-21T22:24:49Z Now she stars in endless high-volume TV shows about the various ups and downs of her tedious existence, and generally gives the impression of being one Iceland prawn short of a full ring. Big Brother's return 2011-08-18T19:25:00Z I say “hypothetical draw,” because “The Child” is more tedious than tense. A wisecracking female journalist, on the case of a long-dead baby 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z As I was gorging on them with my husband, I confessed that he probably wouldn’t get to eat them again because they were tiny and tedious to make. Perspective | This popular perennial flower can be turned into a tasty summer snack 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z It feels like Balvin is being forced to complete a tedious homework assignment, rather than reflecting earnestly on his personal hardships. J Balvin Attempts to Reintroduce Himself on ‘Jose’ 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Long hours in bed, even when needed, are tedious. Life with migraines: ‘It feels like a creature is pushing itself through my skull’ | Anna Altman 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z It's a tedious process, but a necessary one. Indian TV fights a bleeping battle with censors 2012-06-01T12:59:15Z Mr. Ellis is fascinating when he glances at an idea — wrist-launched drones turning us all into modern falconers, for instance — but tedious, at least to me, when he begins to pontificate. Review: ‘Normal’ Looks Into the Abyss and Finds the Future 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z But it is hard to think of a celebrated dancer performing today who is more tedious, more devoid of stage sense, more undancerly and more lacking in musicianship. Dance Review: Savion Glover Taps at Hummingbird Speed at the Joyce 2010-06-22T22:32:00Z There will be no more mammograms, no more tedious lectures, no more pawing physicians. Barbara Ehrenreich Urges Us to Accept, Accept the Dying of the Light 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z In the meantime, however, we learn that social media too makes Houston grieve: “Facebook has already made me cry four times this morning,” she writes roughly a third of a way through a tedious missive. The Examined Life May Be More Worth Living. Reading About It Is Another Matter. 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Or are there other similarly tedious sessions that crawl slowly to mind? The Strokes' Angles: has making an album ever sounded more depressing? 2011-03-11T11:36:27Z Each of its dance works — some masterpieces, some tedious — at least created an image, a stage world. At Dance Theater of Harlem, Where’s the ‘Theater’? 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z “Something Rotten!,” the rambunctious new show that opened on Wednesday night at the St. James Theater, dances dangerously on the line between tireless and tedious, and winds up collapsing into the second camp. Review: ‘Something Rotten!,’ an Over-the-Top Take on Shakespeare 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z There are odd moments in Seven Psychopaths when Marty's understandable exasperation becomes tedious and repetitive. Seven Psychopaths – review 2012-12-09T00:05:57Z America will soon be confronted with 101 Ways to Leave a Gameshow, a remake of a tedious BBC1 misfire from last summer. The state of British TV: entertainment 2011-03-28T12:07:38Z I tried some years ago to “find a man” online, but I found it a largely negative and tedious process. I am single and in my 70s. Should I have an affair with a married man? 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z It's beyond tedious at this point, and really, must we overstuff the market with infantile movies featuring overblown CGI and crude white hat/black hat narratives? ‘Avengers,’ the Most Lucrative Movie Franchise Ever, Is Wrapping Up. Why? 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z I confess to having found EPL tedious at times and to struggling with the fortuitous arrival of true love at the end of Gilbert's year of self-discovery. 2010-01-08T21:05:00Z Gross, yes, but in the end the actions grow more and more tedious. Dance Review: Keith Hennessy’s ‘Turbulence’ at New York Live Arts 2012-10-09T21:59:44Z “This is a remarkable book,” he wrote, “but it is far from a completely successful one. It grows tedious. It becomes repetitious. And finally it frankly bores.” Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z Then again, negotiations are typically long, usually tedious and given to minutiae. From ‘Camp David’ to ‘Oslo,’ Forging Drama from Diplomacy 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z At first it's fun to focus on listening and to watch sounds being made, but the ideas, going nowhere, become tedious. Josephine and I; Barnum; The Hush – review 2013-07-27T23:05:20Z Still, a sink perpetually brimming with dirty dishes is a proxy for all that is tedious and tiresome about life at the undramatic edges of this crisis. The dishes will never be done 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z Russ and Lina are recognizable, sympathetic and kind of tedious together: The show improves when Russ leaves the house and hangs out with his bitter, profane best friends. It’s Ennui Time on ‘Satisfaction’ and ‘Married’ 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z But she finds the subject of her industriousness tedious. Her ‘Great Comet’ Glowed. Now She’s Heading to ‘Hadestown’ 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z Even in triumph, Elaine is tedious, ungrateful, grasping, but what is undeniable is her gift as a performer, her ability to be both cauterizingly acerbic and heartbreakingly vulnerable at virtually the same time. Shut Up and Drink Your Champagne: The Impossible Life of the Impossible Elaine Stritch 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z But to his critics, such outlandish schemes, reliant on as-yet-non-existent technologies, are unhelpful distractions from the more tedious work of cutting emissions and reducing our dependence on oil. Tim Flannery: A life in books 2011-03-14T07:59:01Z “You always need to keep an eye on where you’re storing your photos, to make sure things aren’t going out of date,” she tells them, describing the process as “tedious” but necessary. It’s Almost 2019. Do You Know Where Your Photos Are? 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z When music and dance are subordinated to hammering home feelings of grief and gloom, then flamenco is both tedious and absurd. Dance Review: Eva Yerbabuena Stars in Flamenco Festival 2014-03-10T21:17:14Z And in “Decorator Malignin,” a bureaucrat doodled on the margins of documents during the endless, tedious meetings that made up his pointless working life. Ilya Kabakov, Soviet-Born Artist of Immersive Installations, Dies at 89 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z This part of the story is lightweight and can get tedious — I had to push through for a minute. ‘Sweetbitter,’ by Stephanie Danler 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Translation and articulation of movement is tough and tedious on Zoom, but the dancers are picking up the steps quickly. A Choreographer in Quarantine (the Kind With a Guard in the Hall) 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z A meeting — formal or informal, routine or hastily gathered, tedious or contentious — amounts to a Wiseman signature, like a shootout in a Tarantino movie or a dirty joke in a Judd Apatow comedy. Frederick Wiseman: The Filmmaker Who Shows Us Ourselves 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z This is less a vivid tale of survival than one long, tedious depiction of force against force. 'Lone Survivor' is a long firefight 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z They perform an annual ritual — charming and infuriating, lavish and tedious — devoted to conjuring up a fantasy of continuity and consensus. #MeToo, Harvey Weinstein and Awkward TV: Our Critics Talk Oscars 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z Indeed, Caitlyn Jenner’s life seemed accurately depicted, with minimal flash—which is to say, tedious. I Am Cait Proves Caitlyn Jenner Is the Kardashian Family's Most Compelling Star Yet 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z “To be honest, for the singer, it’s tedious,” said David Skinner, a Cambridge academic who directs the Alamire ensemble. From a 1550s Pandemic, a Choral Work Still Casts Its Spell 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z In an e-mail, Ms. Sagri wrote: “From my perspective Ms. Young’s and Steiner’s discussion was just a continuation of a tedious attempt to seek power from another woman’s exploitation.” Provocateur Returns to P.S. 1, but Not to Provoke 2010-09-06T21:56:00Z The juxtaposition of these events might be exciting — or even mischievously funny — if each scene wasn’t so tedious. ‘The Invitation’ Review: Bringing Down the Haunted House 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z They pretend to be fun – lots of moving pictures and whizzy graphics and things to click or shoot – but they've got a tedious ulterior motive. Will Iran shoot itself in the foot with a video game about Rushdie? 2012-06-30T23:05:50Z They hitchhike and train-hop and trade small affections in this warm but inert buddy film that occasionally veers toward the tedious. Movie Review: ‘Avé’ Is a Bulgarian Buddy Film 2012-10-02T23:12:36Z As the groom drones on with a tedious wedding toast, the bride’s face goes blank. | ?Hysteria? and ?If That?s All There Is?: The Ordinary Can Pave the Road to Insanity 2010-12-19T22:49:44Z But he has a graphic visual style that suits the simplistic material and he keeps you watching even as the wet, sucking sounds of skewered flesh grow tedious. Movie Review: ‘Solomon Kane,’ Based on Robert E. Howard’s Novel 2012-09-27T21:54:27Z A few of these poems may not appeal to everyone — the cataloguing of disused items in “Estate Sale” grows somewhat tedious — and many of them will be most meaningful to those over 60. Poetry review: ‘Splitting an Order,’ by Ted Kooser As with some blogs or soap operas, the ongoing narration, however tedious it often is, can be weirdly addictive, and the suggestive play with fact and fiction can be intriguing. What’s More Appealing: Eight Seasons of ‘Suits’ or Six Volumes of Karl Ove Knausgaard? 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z It was a tedious and exhausting task that took seven years and left him, according to Carrie’s diary, “yellow and shrunken.” When Rudyard Kipling’s Son Went Missing 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z Easily the longest, most unremittingly tedious storyline of any soap in 2012. 2012: the best of hate-watch TV 2012-12-29T00:07:21Z All this confounding of expectations is admirable, but that doesn’t necessarily equal enjoyable; in some authors’ hands, subversion can be buffoonery, and admirable can be didactic and tedious. Nordic Noir, in the Horn of Africa 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Though Ms. Smirnova and Mr. Chudin are much friendlier here than in their usual noble stage personas, their lyrical sequences prove tedious. Review: In Bolshoi’s Ballet, Little Shrewishness and Less Taming 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z The trouble started when Marshall Fine, the thoroughly unremarkable critic who runs Hollywood & Fine, declared the film “nonsensical,” “lumpish” and “tedious.” Jerks defend “Dark Knight” 2012-07-18T15:55:00Z A fable about a stuffed animal that comes to life risks being a tedious cliché, but in Liniers’s skillful hands, “Good Night, Planet” is anything but. ‘Goodnight Moon,’ but Not Just Yet 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z The creator of Family Guy went on to create a million shows that are exactly like Family Guy and the world's worst tedious swing album vanity project. The Simpsons is debasing itself with a Family Guy crossover episode 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z They may sound like adorable forest imps, or perhaps a tedious improvisation troupe, but drumlins are actually elongated hills. Designer Mary Little Unveils a Series of Minimalist Textile Wall Hangings 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z But just as often it’s tedious as hell. New York Playgrounds I Have Known 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z The work was at times physically toilsome and, it has to be admitted, brutally tedious for stretches of unthinkable duration. Ladies Who Launch: Women Who Opened the Door to Space Exploration 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z Despite the world-changing ramifications inherent to the plot, the results are more tedious than thrilling. Review: Sub drama 'Phantom' remains submerged 2013-02-28T20:10:12Z But the commotion created by the dancers getting in and out of the car — this was how they transformed from one character to the next or gathered more props — was tedious. Dance Review: Yoshiko Chuma?s ?A-C-E One? at the River to River Festival 2010-07-08T21:23:00Z But The Hollywood Reporter's Todd McCarthy was less impressed, saying: "This tedious third entry doesn't bode well for the continuation of the franchise." Plot needed big changes, new Narnia filmmakers say 2010-12-07T13:45:00Z The sheer strangeness of the film may be mesmerizing at first, but even the slim 70-minute run time eventually feels tedious when so little happens. ‘Tito’ Review: An Oddball Character Study 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z We dread your appearance not just because you threaten Jon Snow and his cohorts but because you threaten to drag the show we love further into a realm that we find tedious. An Open Letter to the White Walker Army 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Charles Fuller seems to be striving for topicality and resonance in his earnest but tedious drama “One Night,” which premiered in New York in 2013. Dancing some pleasing duets at the Contemporary American Theater Festival The review critiques “The Late Wedding,” a bold and brainy but tedious play that is receiving its D.C.-area premiere from the Hub Theatre. Review | Hub Theatre’s ‘The Late Wedding’ is daring, but tends toward tedious 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z Almost 20 years ago, a new company came on the scene promising to revolutionize the tedious and often frustrating chore of securing a restaurant reservation. OpenTable Began a Revolution. Now It’s a Power Under Siege. 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z His work divided the film world, with some critics quick to denounce his movies as desperately tedious, while his fans hailed him as an aesthete who laid bare the human soul. 2010-01-11T18:58:00Z She is witty, sometimes relentlessly so, and jumps from saucy anecdote to saucy anecdote, rarely wasting time on anything so tedious as context. How Liz Taylor liked her pasta and other secrets from a ‘food detective’ 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z He published turgid letters in theTimes about a breathtakingly tedious panoply of subjects—Hawaiian statehood, local government reform, Prohibition, world peace, and more. Jack Kerouac, misogynist creep: Inside his ugly infatuation with Marilyn Monroe 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z Even among the London set, Morocco evoked tedious stereotypes — “caftans, hashish, camels,” Mr. Hajjaj said — that irritated him. Hassan Hajjaj Turns Moroccan Clichés Into London Cool 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z There are an endless variety of boring people, but none are more brazenly tedious than parents telling you about their kids. Stand-Up Comics and the Parent Trap 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Seen from the shifting perspectives of mother, father, daughter and son — each fully, empathetically rendered — their life in Plano feels more makeshift, like a tedious kind of limbo. In This Debut Novel, a Chinese Immigrant Keeps His Sleepwalking Sister’s Secrets 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z Although there are many tedious scenes set in delivery rooms, the only remotely moving moment in What to Expect features Lopez’s character embracing her adoptive child for the first time. What to Expect When You're Expecting: An Ensemble Film That Doesn't Deliver 2012-05-18T10:00:32Z Autumn is upon us, and with it the long, often tedious publicity trail to the Oscars. Streaming: Meryl Streep kicks off a season of starry Netflix offerings 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z To that end, he devoted a third of his allotted rehearsal time to a company class and worked so slowly that some of the dancers initially found the process tedious. Alvin Ailey Partners With Maker of Reyataz for a Dance 2011-11-29T23:13:04Z London Coliseum, Fri to 30 Dec Faeries, London The family Christmas show is difficult to crack: what's engaging for children can make tedious viewing for their parents. This week's new dance 2010-12-04T00:07:00Z And, as with the dreamscapes in “Inception,” the special effects in “Doctor Strange” serve beauty and meaning rather than the grimly tedious destruction that drains energy out of most contemporary superhero movies. Review: ‘Doctor Strange’ and His Most Excellent Adventure 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Smashing watermelons to approximate the noise of splintering femurs is all fun and games, but some tasks can be more tedious. Making Waves: behind a fascinating documentary about movie sound 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z Ralston didn't have to "find himself" or discover the meaning of life, nor was there a tedious underlying love affair. 127 Hours: 'A complete sensory ordeal' 2011-01-17T22:15:01Z The toil, according to Beckett, may be tedious and futile. Review: Wrestling With a Master in ‘On Beckett’ 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z But the results, once again, were visually tedious and unenlightening. Review | The value of Trevor Paglen’s art may remain a secret 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Like Markle, I know how tedious it is to be stereotyped, quizzed, and to have people guess your race as a form of entertainment. Living on the borderline: how I embraced my mixed-race status after years of denial 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z Bryan Buckley, the director of her Super Bowl commercial Usually those commercials are kind of tedious or annoying. Leslie Jones Gets Revved Up by Vinyl, Live Tweeting and ‘Euphoria’ 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z That requires a longer, more tedious road to travel to affect actual change. The Concert for Bangladesh and its charity pop legacy 2011-07-28T21:00:01Z Hours of sitting have made them both tedious. Review | Don DeLillo’s ‘The Silence’ is an absurdist look at our technology dependence 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z If you transferred that into autobiography, it would be tedious. Five great published diaries 2012-07-16T11:00:00Z Even the Stones’ celebrated longevity represented less of a life’s mission to Watts than a tedious job punctuated by brief moments of excitement. Charlie Watts, the Unlikely Soul of the Rolling Stones 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z But you said you found singing shows a little tedious, with that relentless parade of singers. Simon Cowell on Joining ‘America’s Got Talent’ 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z There was gimmickry — almost unbelievably, the show doubled down on the tedious suspense building and presented the big reveal via a tortured Rick flashback. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7 Premiere: Negan’s Victim Is Revealed 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z By 1985, he had become a producer, working on promotional spots including the brief interstitial clips that gave the network its edge, especially in its early years, when the music videos themselves could be tedious. Peter Dougherty, Who Brought Rap to MTV, Dies at 59 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z A tedious federal minister, a terminally vain titan of Ruhr industry, a Hohenzollern pretender and a quartet of free-loading parliamentarians have finally called for their limousines. A Delicate Truth by John le Carré – extract 2013-04-12T20:01:02Z And, worse still, the tedious domestic monotone of its parents from 6:01am onwards. Festivals are no place for children 2010-08-27T10:33:00Z Depp allegedly spends $30,000 a month on wine, and the only thing more tedious to spend your money on than watches is wine. Oh, how I loved you, Johnny Depp. Now I see the purple-tinted truth 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z But there were more than a few tedious bits that had some patrons squirming. Theater review: In new SCT musical, it's 'Brementown' or bust! 2010-04-22T21:17:00Z This would have the advantage of allowing the veteran British film-maker to complete the increasingly tedious timeline between Prometheus and the events of the original Alien, via several further, no-doubt increasingly prosaic, instalments. Where will Hollywood's search for authenticity end? 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z That in turn spurs a convoluted and incomprehensible revenge plot and a lot — a truly impressive amount — of tedious though often violent, thoroughly soft-core sex. | '3D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy': Cantonese Erotic Fantasy: 3-D and One Lousy Lover 2011-08-21T22:14:52Z Still, understanding the importance of higher education, she devoted her afternoons to the tedious tasks involved in creating the college center. This former inmate is fighting for every prisoner’s right to a college degree 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z But the process of obtaining a beard waiver is tedious, and there can be financial barriers. Beard Crusader 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z Their admiring looks were enough to get me started on my long, tedious education on the uneasy power of male-female dynamics. The day I put my bikini away 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z Instead, she and Ted would enter into years of couples’ therapy resembling the tedious purgatory of the HBO drama “Tell Me You Love Me.” Riff: The Divorce Delusion 2011-07-08T04:00:45Z “I thought in some tedious way that he might be a writer.” Salman Rushdie on the opulent realism of his new novel, 'The Golden House' 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z But bassoonists also need to devote at least half their time to the tedious process of making their own reeds from raw cane. Dancing With Myself: How Artists Stay in Shape Without a Stage 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z The craftsman dissolves the resin in Everclear because, with its high alcohol content, it dries resins quickly, so the already tedious process can be accomplished in a reasonable amount of time. What do college partyers, violin makers and cake decorators have in common? “Years and years of lectures on family and legacy —same lecture, really, just with tiny, tedious variations,” she tells him. A "Game of Thrones" shout out to the last ladies standing 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z Bill "Fingers" Foxley, so called because he had none left, became secretary, ensuring that very few tedious minutes would be taken. Sculptor pays tribute to plastic surgery pioneer 2013-01-01T20:05:28Z There was no label too tedious to read, no piece undeserving of her scrutiny. Admit One: Escaping the Heat in Art’s Fortress 2013-08-22T19:54:11Z The temptations to write the task off as impossible, or to forget all about it as a tedious bore, will be almost irresistible. Unraveling my family's Cold War mystery 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z What I know from a life of watching and reviewing movies is that outrage is tedious, and exhausting. What It’s Like to Be a Female Movie Critic in the #MeToo Era 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z The novel contains every aspect of this quest, including long digressions that describe trips to the gas station, a hair salon or a tedious party for toddlers. Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘My Struggle’ Is a Movement 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z The story strayed in the middle of the season and chose some tedious detours. In Season 2, FX’s ‘The Bridge’ reaches a little too far What might be tedious in other writers becomes mysteriously freighted, his world ushered into life not with broad sweeps but with bullet-pointed, monomaniacal repetition. A brief survey of the short story part 26: JG Ballard 2010-06-10T15:24:00Z Were we force-fed a steady diet of these people, they would no doubt become just as tedious, conniving or over-the-top as those Housewives or the participants of "The Bachelor." On BBC America's reality series 'Come Dine With Me,' average folks compete to be the best dinner host 2010-07-13T21:47:00Z “Eurydice” commits more explosively to woe in its stellar third act, after two acts of tedious exposition. Love, Trust and Heartbreak on Two Stages 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z With most Marvel movies you start checking your watch, because either the special effects have started to get tedious or the dialogue is forced, leaden, and predictable. Review: ‘Doctor Strange’ and His Most Excellent Adventure 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Other headliners include Snow Patrol, the Vaccines and the Maccabees, who will turn up, do their thing with tedious proficiency and go blankly on their way. Why I won't be going to see the Stone Roses, by John Harris 2012-06-22T23:15:00Z But by that time, Frank Rich wrote in The Times, Zorba’s “grabby philosophy” felt tedious: “While it once seemed liberating and romantic, it now sounds juvenile.” Review: ‘Zorba!’ Starring John Turturro 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z Shipping wars and love triangles can feel tedious and juvenile at times, especially in an age of corny social media hashtags and "fan-cams." From "Twilight" to "Never Have I Ever," here's what makes the greatest love triangles so potent 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z It’s upsetting, to be sure, but it’s also extremely tedious. 'Sick and asphyxiating' – why we live in an age of anxiety 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z Russell told The Associated Press in 1987 that he found such censorship "so tedious and boring." British film director Ken Russell dies at 84 2011-11-28T12:07:21Z We’re in for a tedious history lesson, these hypothetical skeptics predict in song; a dreaded feminist is “planning to scold you for three hours straight.” ‘Suffs’ Review: Young, Scrappy and Hungry for the Right to Vote 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z Of course, the process of creating a recipe is tedious: Behind each component of a dish, time, research, tests and tastings are required just to create a recipe. Pink mole? How diverse shades and flavors help make a storied Mexican staple shine even brighter 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z Mostly, though, Mr. Ahluwalia, a documentarian making his fiction film debut, keeps his camera trained on the behind-the-scenes ugliness and exploitation, even at the risk of being tedious. The Week Ahead: Oct. 21 — 28 2012-10-21T07:30:05Z Once the viewer gets past the shouty-ness of the show – contestants dictate every message down to the punctuation and emojis – "The Circle" is simultaneously tedious and engrossing. From "Love Is Blind" to "The Circle," the new breed of reality TV reformulates how we connect 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Franco's recessive performance -- clearly meant to evoke an air of mystery -- is more tedious than intriguing, and Lucas and Nicholson don't fare much better. Franco takes dark turn in pretentious crime drama 2010-04-29T06:02:00Z Sorry, but 'The King's Speech' was the most tedious film I've seen in years... King's Speech leads Oscars pack 2011-01-25T17:34:34Z Yelling for yelling’s sake, by Gypsies or anyone else, became tedious years ago. Television Review: ‘American Gypsies’ on National Geographic Channel 2012-07-16T22:24:41Z Nonsense sentences sung indifferently without benefit of story or visual embellishment should all be tedious. Review: ‘The Floatones,’ Making Song and Sense of Life and Nonsense 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z I know I'm being tedious, but what are "American" novels? Which book is greater than The Great Gatsby? 2013-05-08T15:29:01Z But for other readers, the familiar anecdotes that fill the first section of the novel verge on the tedious. In ‘Rodham,’ Curtis Sittenfeld Reimagines Hillary’s Life 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z It doesn’t, but that’s not the main reason why “The 25th Frame,” though only 55 minutes long, becomes tedious. Dance Review | Alex Escalante: Babble on? Babylon? Next Question, Please 2010-02-19T23:46:00Z Saturday saw Mark Ronson unveil his new band the Business International, and he proved he can be just as tedious noodling with synthesisers as with brass. Lovebox 2010-07-19T20:31:00Z What I mind much more is how crashingly tedious it all is. TV Review: Call the Midwife 2013-01-20T21:00:01Z I can’t promise to be any fun, and in fact there’s a good chance I will be tedious verging on huge bummer. Would You Like to Come Over for Dinner … in 10 Years? 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z How much does Elihu retain — if not consciously, then unconsciously — from his daily slate of mind-numbingly tedious and sometimes cruel memory tests? ‘The Man Without a Shadow’ review: An amnesiac you’ll never forget 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z Almost all the earliest shapes were probably formed by hand, which was a tedious process, so people worked on making their production more efficient as pasta gained importance in their diets. Agnolotti, bucatini and the innovative new "cascatelli" — a brief history of pasta shapes 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z Then there is the matter of the tedious villain. Alex Cross: Freed from Madea, Tyler Perry Is Still No Morgan Freeman 2012-10-18T15:00:58Z Indeed, although sharing eight shows a week with a life partner may seem tedious, those in the trenches say they prefer it. Field Notes: People Will Say They’re in Love, and They Are 2013-06-29T00:13:18Z Where she fails is that she brings you along on every single painful, tedious moment of that journey. Pet Projects of the New Billionaires 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z It’s just not a very intriguing role, being bathed in the kind of misogyny that feels like a tedious relic of the generation in which Scott, now 75, and McCarthy, 80, grew up. The Counselor: Hard-Boiled Hokum 2013-10-24T09:45:41Z They have eaten and hugged, as it were, and have thereby rescued this ballet from its sometimes tedious grandeur. Ratmansky’s Beauty Wakes Up 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z A constant state—even of excitement—in time becomes tedious, fades in the background because our senses have evolved to report only changes,” writes Diane Ackerman in “A Natural History of the Senses.” From “kosher sex” to love maps, 5 tips for keeping your sex life hot 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z Olympias is absurd; all red hair, bacchic revels, spite, anger and tedious complaints. Looking back at the Lost Booker: Mary Renault 2010-05-03T09:00:00Z The book even manages to live down to its tedious title. Jeb Bush is the most boring man alive: What’s worse than getting a “reply-all” email? Reading an entire book of Jeb’s 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z But this time, perhaps tired of the tedious merry-go-round of bland, “Sorry, didn’t mean it” responses, Rodriguez has broken loose. Michelle Rodriguez quits apologising and goes for full-frontal defiance 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Also, she found the president character too tedious to actually write. The Playwright Making a Farce of the Patriarchy 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z Nor do we require so much prep: the job of shucking oysters is as tedious to read about as it is to perform. The Sorcerer's Apprentices: A Season at el Bulli by Lisa Abend ? review 2011-04-10T02:00:01Z And if I'm not part of it, it's got to be really tedious.' How stars endure the 5-hour Creative Arts Emmys 2012-09-14T13:54:13Z I don’t care that the character is a tedious sexist anachronism who shags everything, especially, if he’s played by Roger Moore and said thing is 30 years younger than him. I've never seen … any James Bond film | Hadley Freeman 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z At first, I can’t even think of any recent positive experiences, but after a few minutes, I recall a long and mostly tedious drive to Exeter the previous week. ‘Most of us are too busy to be better’: the lazy person's guide to self-improvement 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z Not least, they grow tedious in their defensiveness about what they regard as an inestimable treasure. ‘Shakespeare’s Beehive’ review: Are these notes and scribbles the Bard’s? 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Under a president who makes an average of 6.5 false or misleading claims a day, the often tedious business of fact-checking has taken on new urgency. What happened when I went to psychic school 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Instead, video game adaptations tend to get caught up in tedious backstory. Movie adaptations of video games are still mostly terrible. Why has no one cracked the code? 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z Just been taking care of some of the tedious technical aspects of getting the liveblog running, but now here I am and ready to go. The Rolling Stones and all tonight's bands – live! 2013-06-30T00:31:00Z In a tedious monologue, Mr. Acosta, perched grandly above a white partition, says: “I die to be newer. I die to let life live. I die knowing that it will be good.” Dance Review: At New York Live Arts, Works by Tess Dworman and Niv Acosta 2014-01-31T19:38:38Z They considered most postwar Italian literature to be intolerably tedious. Edoardo Sanguineti obituary 2010-05-26T17:23:00Z Dear Heloise: To keep my car cup holders clean and avoid tedious cleaning, I keep cupcake or muffin paper/ foil cups in each compartment. Hints From Heloise: Cleaning the windshield-wiper blades 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z If there’s one thing pop-star memoirs teach us, it’s that fame is pretty much the same for everyone, regardless how they got there: It’s alienating and tedious and terrifying. Review | Sinéad O’Connor was a star, then a pariah. She says she wouldn’t change a thing. 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z It just is, for a long and tedious time. Theater Review: ?There We Will Be Buried,? at the Whitney Biennial 2012-05-18T21:26:58Z You are languishing in a tedious existence among dull people. Review: ‘Shadowhunters,’ a Teenage Fantasyland Roamed by Demon Killers 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z Body surfing is fun for the surfer but tedious for a viewer. Alex Israel spells everything out at the Huntington 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z As Damrosch puts it, Gibbon broke with “tedious chronicles of fact,” maintaining a “storytelling momentum” that is “constantly enlivened by memorable incidents and characterizations.” The Friday Night Gab Sessions That Fueled 18th-Century British Culture 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z "Catch and Kill" has been called the story within the story, pulling back the curtain on the at times devastating, inspiring and tedious components that went into Farrow's reporting. Inside the media debate between using “sexual assault” and “rape” 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z It is tedious, I admit, But I haven’t gotten weary yet. Pops Staples’s Belated Finale 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z And even they, too, may wish it didn’t play out in such tedious mechanical fashion. ‘Justin Bieber: Our World’ Review: A Pop Star Enshrouded 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z A tedious respectability clings to this exhibition even though the subject matter is sex. Tracey Emin should have had more fun at the seaside 2012-05-25T15:16:36Z We know it with a stack of corroborating scholarship and we know it implicitly, so that even making a list of the accomplishments feels faintly tedious, and is helpful mainly as a counter to Eurocentrism. Black Body: Rereading James Baldwin’s “Stranger in the Village” 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z Also some characters appeared to be doing the same thing for a few chapters, such as finishing off speech, which got a bit tedious. The Last Minute by Eleanor Updale - review 2013-02-11T12:00:00Z Curtis treats Hardwick’s work with respect and admiration, though her detailed, dutiful summaries of essays and fiction sometimes grow tedious, and come at the expense of historical context and literary insight. The Cutting Mind and Romantic Heart of Elizabeth Hardwick 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z But to me, the tedious insipidity of many processed wines is just as much a flaw. Bubbles, With Joy: Pétillant Naturel’s Triumphant Return 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z It was a smashing rebuke to the tedious journalistic libel that film actors are stupid. Summer reading: 'coalition books' 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z I was 16 when, at the end of a particularly tedious summer term, I returned to peacetime Brittany a half-grown English misfit. John le Carré’s ‘A Legacy of Spies’: An Excerpt 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z They need time to get to know one another, to get used to each other’s patterns and behaviours and tedious Owen Wilson impersonations that they keep shoehorning into conversations for no real reason. Hail Twiddleswift! Not the super-couple we deserve, but the one we need 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z The comparison makes “Work of Art” sound vaguely tedious, which it is decidedly not. | 'Work of Art: The Next Great Artist': Bravo Series Picks the New Picasso, ?Runway? Style 2010-06-08T22:47:00Z Big shows by blue-chip artists can be more "official" and boring: I remember an utterly tedious exhibition of bronzes by Max Ernst at the Fruitmarket. Edinburgh festival 2011: stand by for a smorgasbord of surprises 2011-07-26T14:26:58Z I found it tedious, gratuitous and a number of other supercilious-sounding adjectives that will cause hardcore horror fans to dismiss me as a priss. Just How Scary is Sinister? 2012-10-11T15:30:57Z Some sources are clear, like the news photo of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of Britain, which accompanies the sentence “The ceremony was both long and tedious.” Maira Kalman’s Irreverent Pictures for the Grammar Bible 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z It elegantly wedges through the tedious jargon and pomp of cheese culture. ‘It’s Not You, It’s Brie:’ Blessed are the cheesemakers 2013-01-02T22:44:37Z “Ultraviolence” is an album of good and great songs, presented by a tedious character. ‘Ultraviolence’ is the set of songs Lana Del Rey was invented to sing We spend our weekends at dull parties, watching tedious films or listening to our spouses drone on about their day. Why are we so bored? 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z Authors who wanted to artificially inflate their book’s popularity could buy satisfied reader reviews, circumventing the tedious business of building relationships with readers, librarians and booksellers like those squares in traditional publishing insist you must. Can self-publishing win respect? 2012-08-27T16:26:00Z He told me a long and, I’m afraid to say, slightly tedious story about a work problem and how it got solved. I’m on a slightly dull date and he’s texting. What if it’s his wife? 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z It’s a treacherous, tedious undertaking, and Kelly Reichardt, the director of this tough, quiet revelation of a movie, films it in an uninflected style that makes everything feel at once mundane and mysterious. | 'Meek?s Cutoff': Out on the Frontier, Bringing All That Baggage With Them 2011-04-07T22:33:01Z Steinem, thankfully, has no time for the tedious academic theorising that bogs down so much feminist discourse but favours instead plain speaking, good humour and common sense. Hadley Freeman's 10 awesome women: from Katharine Hepburn to Miss Piggy 2013-04-22T15:38:00Z "There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude." Robert Hughes quotes: 20 of the best 2012-08-07T10:44:50Z He makes fun of his own comeback, calling it “ill-conceived” and “tedious, at times,” then launches into a rehash of walking offstage in Hartford, Conn., in response to heckling. Dave Chappelle at Radio City Music Hall 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z Don’t launch those nukes! — is so relentless it becomes tedious. ‘White House Down’: Look, it’s ‘Fallen’ again 2013-06-27T01:47:00Z But the obstacles along the way seem trivial enough to make the story of their relationship fairly tedious, despite the charm and sincerity of the actors. Review: In ‘The Longest Ride,’ the Nicholas Sparks Brand Endures 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z When they work, they're dazzling, and when they don't, they just seem tedious. "Breaking Bad" 4x5, "Shotgun" 2011-08-15T06:01:00Z Often the village-as-microcosm films become tedious in their efforts to charm. Where Do We Go Now?: Women in Black 2012-05-10T10:45:57Z Churchill had no idea who James was, found him tedious, and behaved crudely. The Late Late Phase 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z It can be easy to think of representation as an abstraction, as a political cudgel, a tedious rallying cry, a bore. A Sundance With Brains and Guts, Disemboweled and Otherwise 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z It's so tedious, and provincial, a village fete turned into television. The Great British Bake Off review – the great British nod off 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z In the movie’s tedious back-and-forth shouting matches, the guests reveal their struggles with addiction, mental illness, family strife and acute financial pressures. | 'Trespass': ?Trespass,? With Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman - Review 2011-10-13T23:47:25Z Unfortunately, it is just a tedious study of Graham mannerisms as viewed through the already mannerist lens of Mr. Wilson’s form of theater. Dance Review: Lauding a Great Artist With No Example of Her Greatness 2011-03-16T21:49:32Z “Sometimes it gets a bit tedious being asked about these things, because I can’t be a spokesperson for an entire group of people,” she tells me. Ruth Negga: 'There are films that really mark you. Loving is one of those for me' 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z One early set piece, in which deadly spiders run amok in a nursing home, shows potential but swiftly devolves into a tedious slog of limp action clichés and irreverent quipping. ‘The Curse of Bridge Hollow’ Review: Attack of the Halloween Décor 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z But I’m curious: Did younger viewers just find it all sort of tedious? Did You Watch ‘Stranger Things’? Let’s Talk About It 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z The cartoonish Mama Cobblepot has been pretty tedious in previous appearances but she added some fun here, swilling bubbly, dancing sloppily with Gabe the heavy and generally luxuriating in her son’s newfound clout. 'Gotham' Recap: A Victory for Good, With Help From a Thug 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z It may seem tedious, but when you think about the potential savings, it is well worth it. A new leaf: the complete guide to getting your life back on track this autumn 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z Gone were tedious trade delegations, midi-chloreans and galactic senates, back were knockabout space romps and realistic looking sets. Would George Lucas's Star Wars sequels have been better than Disney's? 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z Either way, although it may initially sound a bit impressive as a way to spend your afternoon, it soon starts to seem simply sad, obsessive-compulsive, tedious. AL Kennedy: Taking the temperature of work in progress 2010-03-30T08:00:00Z This generally streamlines and accelerates the tedious process of development, with a marquee name attracting financiers and quelling potential squabbles over life rights. Hollywood needs to stop letting stars author their own biopics | Charles Bramesco 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z By film’s end, conversations that had grown so tedious on the internet had been reborn as riveting, hilarious, tragic. Breaking Out of the #MeToo Movie Formula 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z Visa Winning approval to visit is technical, tedious and time-consuming--and it might even hurt the American economy. Forbes Guide To Worldwide Travel 2010-03-16T21:00:00Z But if all this reminds you overmuch of another tedious shopping expedition to Staples, wait a sec. “Stuff Matters”: Unpacking the small, material wonders of everyday life 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z Obviously the viewer hates science -- likening the Scully/Einstein as tedious, like an episode of NOVA. ‘The X-Files’ Season 10 Finale: Our Struggle 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Yet, in effect, they are all the same solo: a bad poem of adolescent angst, overwrought with shaking and limbs with a will of their own, unintentionally comic and ultimately tedious. Two Ways of Looking at Cuba’s Modern Dance Problem 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z Erasing prejudice is a tedious and sadly directionless pursuit. Blogging "City Island": My fat-chick manifesto 2010-04-12T16:18:00Z Nobody remembers the tedious exposition and unnecessary padding; when you look back it’s all suspenseful set-pieces and drama. My favourite film aged 12: GoldenEye 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z If you are part of that small percentage of the population who enjoy Sondheim then you'll look past the flaws of this deeply tedious movie and enjoy his song. ‘Into the Woods,’ Disney’s Take on the Sondheim-Lapine Classic 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z “Apart from anything else,” Leigh said, “that would involve finding a small fat boy who looked like Tim Spall and liked to draw and paint, and that would be very tedious indeed.” How ‘Mr. Turner’ director Mike Leigh, actor Timothy Spall brought a great artist to life 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z Just imagine an English potentate breaking the good news to the people: a ban on bloody tedious Robinson Crusoe, cluttering the mind. Nicolas Sarkozy, the murderer of the Princess of Cleves 2011-03-23T09:30:01Z It's a tedious process, and one that's evolving rapidly as fewer composers are classically trained. Seattle makes beautiful music ? for films and videogames 2012-05-02T22:20:06Z Mr. Kindler often cuts through this tedious dialogue, approaching subjects from an insider’s perspective but without dogma. Andy Kindler Gives the Funny Business Its Annual Review 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z Like other novelties of the post-hipster age, the source of the value is not just the finished work, but also the tedious and rarefied conditions of its production. Hipster Culture and Instagram Are Responsible for a Good Thing 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z It’s tedious, but here the dancers gradually reveal their technical proficiency. Dance Review: ‘4Chambers’ Offers an Artsy Embrace on Governors Island 2013-07-07T21:55:08Z "Our life", sings Judas in Elgar's grand oratorio The Apostles, "is short and tedious". Prom 37: Hallé/Elder – review 2012-08-12T10:57:06Z They are drawn to the most dramatic possibilities and ignore more tedious solutions. “True Crime Addict” and the Problem of Internet Sleuths 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z The chintzy, low-budget aesthetic, the hammy acting and the lightsabers are all good, if mildly tedious, fun for the first hour. The Best (and Worst) Theater in Europe in 2022 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z All those TV shows and podcasts have it wrong: the truer the crime, the more tedious. The Killers of the ‘Sex Money Murder’ Gang and the Cops Who Went After Them 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z He tries not to sound like a “middle-aged grump”, but he often struggles with the lack of understanding, such as the tedious witticisms about how lucky he is not to smell drains or manure. ‘I’ve been told bacon smells lovely’ – life without a sense of smell 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z Employers seem to expect job applicants to express passion for even the most tedious, entry-level jobs. Secret to happiness: “I want this job for a week” 2013-05-01T14:07:00Z In a new preface, Johnson explains that he was reluctant to tell the story of how wine has since “joined the tedious world of luxury goods.” Crack open the best 2020 wine books for rich history, international politics and a vintner’s lively memoir 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z On the road, these are shared problems — tedious, exhausting and real for the economics of dance on the road. Twyla Tharp on the Road: Why We Go Out 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z For Hollywood extras accustomed to long and often tedious work, it promised to be, at least, a memorable day on set. Westworld extras allegedly asked to participate in 'graphic sexual situations' 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Its quest to illuminate is foiled, though, by that bane of biographical performance: tedious exposition of a life we know too well. Finding Some Treasures at FringeNYC 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z It’s messy and tedious, and it’s the only point at which I question whether I am wasting my time. Real lasagna is a culinary marvel worth every minute of your time 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z The Bee Gees were cool when they were playing music, but trying to get them to act was quite tedious. Michael Schultz Broke the Mold for Black Directors. He’s Not Done Yet. 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z When I was a kid, I tended to find the Road Runner-and-Wile E. Coyote cartoons tedious. Wuvwy Music 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z Trip Cullman’s clever production, a world premiere, makes the most of a similar feint in “Before the Meeting,” offering in its opening segments a high-octane naturalism of the most expert — and creepingly tedious — sort. On Adjacent Stages, Two Haunted Houses, Circa 1882 and 2019 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z Would you choose to be nine years old, absolved of life's most tedious responsibilities, and instead able to spend your days playing with friends and practicing your times tables? At what age are people usually happiest? New research offers surprising clues 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z It’s a tedious task that as neither a fan of meatloaf or cooking, I find difficult to watch. Arts & Leisure: In Defense of the Slow and the Boring 2011-06-03T13:29:50Z “Stop trying to convince everyone of your patriotism, it’s tedious,” she spits at Dougal along with a few choice curse words. ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 9: ‘A Dragonfly in Amber’ 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z Without big characters or memorable set-pieces, it's reduced to a humdrum series of arenas filled with tedious waist-height barriers, and while there's pleasingly ludicrous weaponry to accumulate, it's not enough to stave off overwhelming apathy. Fuse - review 2013-06-08T05:00:00Z I know sophisticated readers, devoted science fiction fans, who can’t stand it, finding Herbert’s prose inept, the action ponderous, and the whole book clumsy and tedious. Perspective | ‘Dune’ has long divided the science fiction world. The new film won’t change that. 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z It’s grim and almost unbearably tedious, which might be the point, for these are people few others are eager to hear from. ‘Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook,’ a SculptureCenter Exhibition 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z That was painfully clear on more than one occasion during his show at the sold-out 9:30 Club on Saturday, a sashaying performance that veered from tedious to schmaltzy to clever. With humor, but not much melody, Father John Misty comes to 9:30 Club 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z A utensil-rapping might also serve to tap this tedious cooking chronicle to life. ‘A Chef’s Voyage’ Review: Not the Freshest Ingredients 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z The baby looked at each card for less and less time – the cards became less interesting, just as going to the gym quickly becomes tedious. A neuroscientist explains: Why we find it hard to stick to New Year resolutions 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z That everyone who sees “Cursed Child” is implored to “keep the secrets” relieves me of the onerous burden of parsing the byzantine but only occasionally tedious plot. Review: ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Raises the Bar for Broadway Magic 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z The jokes about Tammy’s eating habits, her appetite for burgers, pies and doughnuts, aren’t especially funny and, after a while, register as both tedious and borderline desperate. In ‘Tammy,’ Melissa McCarthy Hits the Road 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z Here the Ballet Hispanico dancers show off their sleek precision, yet this cool effect also grows tedious. Review: Ballet Hispanico’s ‘If Walls Could Speak’ Offers Vignettes of Urban Life 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z The Mad Knight knew: “He leaves behind hot, dusty, tedious La Mancha and enters the realm of faerie by what amounts to a willed act of the imagination.” J.M. Coetzee’s Jesus Sees the World as Don Quixote Does 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Number seven's narration of her life in Santa Teresa is very tedious and this part of the book does not really progress until towards the end of the book. The Power of Six by Pittacus Lore - review 2012-08-19T08:00:00Z Instead, I thought about Glee – the musical comedy from Fox that became more tedious and ludicrous as time went on. 11.22.63: Stephen King's series about a time-traveller up against JFK's assassination is a long-haul treat 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z In "Is He Dead?" by Mark Twain, as adapted from the 1898 text by contemporary playwright David Ives, there's a tedious first act before there's substantial humor. Artist thinks he's better off (playing) dead in Twain comedy 2012-09-21T20:28:03Z So we make our zigzagging ways, picking out our favorite planets and solar systems, accepting a baseline of tedious, standardized dead space that makes the brighter constellations seem disproportionately fresh and surprising. ‘Avengers: Infinity War’: It’s Marvel’s Universe. We Just Live in It. 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z This made her best ideas less likely to be heard and the congressional life turn tedious more quickly than expected. ‘Price of Fame,’ a Biography of Clare Boothe Luce 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z There’s an art to portraying garrulousness without being tedious. Review: ‘The Roads to Home’ Offers Gossip and Insanity Most Genteel 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z Olga’s mother, Blanca, has never returned to see her children in almost 30 years, but she manages to keep close tabs from afar, sending periodic letters full of tedious ideological instruction and meddlesome guilt trips. The Daughter of a Revolutionary Becomes a Wedding Planner. Drama Ensues. 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z But I believe American audiences love to watch children and innocence in general; Europeans are quicker to proclaim them tedious. Critic?s Notebook: ?Nutcracker? Nation: Yes We Can! 2010-12-08T23:32:00Z In a year defined by surprise, the predictability of “The Secret Garden” — a new film adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s beloved 1911 novel — proves more charming than tedious. ‘The Secret Garden’ Review: It’s as Lovely as You Remember 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z Particularly after the surreal section in Berlin and his gruesome ordeal in the hospital, Bruno’s convalescence in Berkeley, Calif., grows tedious. ‘A Gambler’s Anatomy’: Meet the James Bond of backgammon 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z It could have been incredibly tedious, but the fact that it was intermixed with the struggles of workers in the North made it very interesting. Tips, links and suggestions: Our review list and the books you are reading 2012-08-02T08:58:37Z Hope it was good for them, because it was kind of tedious for us. Dancing with the Stars, Season 13: And the Winner Is? 2011-11-23T13:45:02Z Some of it is effective, conveying both stress and camaraderie, exhaustion and adrenaline, but too often the debating soldiers are mouthpieces for differing attitudes to war or simply become tedious. The Watch by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya – review 2012-06-15T21:55:04Z A lot of the show feels thin, the pressure too low, except for Ms. Mohn’s nastiness, and even that gets tedious. Dance Review: Johannes Wieland?s ?new you? at Cunningham Studio - Review 2011-12-22T22:46:00Z Here again were Graham-related contractions of the torso, but without the Expressionist emphasis that in Graham so often becomes tedious; instead these contractions become pure dance. Review: Compagnie CNDC-Angers Dances Cunningham 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z It gave in to every one of the show’s most tedious instincts, substituting slow stares and endless montage sequences for any actual development or new interiority. ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Is Brutal and Not Much Else in Season 2 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z These are amusingly hyperbolic performances until, like the rest of this movie, they grow tedious and dispiriting. Movie Review: Arnold Schwarzenegger Is Back in ‘Sabotage’ 2014-03-27T22:49:41Z The result is remorseless, repetitious and ultimately tedious. Review: In ‘The World of Kanako,’ the Old Ultraviolence 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z But even with Mr. Kissin’s supreme rhythmic and melodic command, a set of six Chopin mazurkas turned tedious, with little to connect among them and few surprises within them. Review: Evgeny Kissin at Carnegie Hall 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z It’s a tedious business, nowadays, disclaiming how much nastier and less patient we all are about everything, from the truth to our tastes. Aaron Rodgers Is Now a Jet (and Becoming a New Yorker, Too) 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z It wasn’t long before Ms. Seiwert’s repetitive movement became tedious and overly familiar in its details: Hands pressed into the chest; a leg jutting forward, heel first. Joyce Ballet Festival Spotlights Women, but Only One Dance Stands Out 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, my grandiose writing projects were all going nowhere for the same tedious reason. Riff: ‘Be Wrong as Fast as You Can’ 2013-01-06T08:07:03Z While such tasks become increasingly tedious, Mr. George does manage to inhabit the Chocolate Factory in a new way. Luke George’s ‘Not About Face,’ at the Chocolate Factory 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z Things are tense and tedious until a conflict erupts, precipitating heroism, atrocity or something more ambiguous. Review: ‘Neither Heaven Nor Earth’ Engages the Horrors of War 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z After the first day, he was worried that his two-week prison simulation might be a tedious bust. Inside “The Stanford Prison Experiment”: Six days in a fake prison, and how they changed the world 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z I find it to be among the more tedious home improvement tasks because it requires tons of prep, specific tools, and for the furniture to be in a state of disarray until it's done. Is painter’s tape really necessary? 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z These range from tedious to wildly overblown to kind of fun. Review: ‘The Hitman’s Bodyguard,’ With Samuel L. Jackson 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z Understood as a self-help book, “The Price You Pay for College” represents an extraordinary achievement: It is comprehensive and detailed without being tedious, practical without being banal, impeccably well judged and unusually rigorous. How to Pay for College (and Not Lose Your Shirt) 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z The feature-length videos in the show, including meditations on Patty Hearst, the Manson family and the Weather Underground, are variously gory, tedious, compelling and amateurish. Raymond Pettibon: Pictures, Literary Voices and Surfers, Too 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z “It might sound tedious, but the best way to make the most of your travel is understanding what you can and can’t do.” Aspire to travel the world? Read this before you go. 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z It’s an exhausting and tedious part of the job. Why Oscar-Winning Director Kevin Macdonald Decided to Make a Submarine Thriller 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Something about his forlorn delivery and the spacey, ghostly sonics keep any tedious righteousness at bay. New band of the day (Nick Brewer 1,563) 2013-07-29T16:02:00Z “That's really hard. … Mark is much better at tedious open areas.” Puzzle swap celebrates jigsaw ‘barter culture’ amid pandemic chaos 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z So it's really just another tedious celebrity travelogue. Undercover Boss; Rick Stein's India – TV review 2013-07-02T06:00:22Z As well as this, there were some parts of the plot that were tedious and dull. Calling a Dead Man by Gillian Cross - review 2012-07-17T14:00:00Z The debaters’ doctrinaire arguments, as uncomfortable and tedious as such conflicts tend to be, are contrasted by the portrayal of those moments when they all unite in acts of physical protest. Review: ‘The Fall’ Delivers Stirring Protest in South Africa 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z “There may be those who will find the length too tiring, the emphasis on Roman politics a bit too involved and tedious, the luxuriance too much,” Bosley Crowther wrote in The New York Times. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Survivor’ and ‘Chicago’ 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z She blithely disregards her unsuitability for pretty much everything she puts her hand to, because home is so tedious, with so very many people needing her attention. Review: In ‘The Saintliness of Margery Kempe,’ a Comically Restless Mystic 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z “Ulysses” is famously difficult, and, in truth, there are tedious parts. Dana Spiotta Loves Coming Across Jokes in Really Old Books 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z A: I’m not one of these spoiled rock stars who complains how tedious it is to have to play my hits every night. Fifty-odd years in, Maria Muldaur finds much happiness in the blues 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z However, the No More Page 3 campaign, now led by Caroline Lucas, is becoming tedious and is as disproportionate in 2013 as the embonpoint of Samantha Fox or Katie Price in their "Currant Bun" heydays. Never mind Page 3, internet porn is what damages young minds 2013-06-13T14:44:47Z The romantic image of the writer in the garret doesn't do justice to the tedious reality of churning out words, one after another. The 5,000-year history of writer’s block 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z His high-decibel rants are not only tedious, but they also turn this pretentious and misconceived novel into a tale about a madman, signifying pretty much nothing. Dave Eggers’s Latest Novel, ‘Your Fathers, Where Are They?’ 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Repeatedly corralling the room into photos for social media is tedious and intrusive. The new rules of dinner parties: don't be on time – and bring more booze than you need 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z Alex James from Blur – before he became galactically tedious about, of all things, cheese – wrote a really charming, daffy example of the genre. Rod: The Autobiography by Rod Stewart – review 2012-11-07T00:00:05Z Unrestricted by the narrative constraints of an individual game’s tedious lore, these films are free to tackle what is most interesting about video games: how they intersect with real life. Movie adaptations of video games are still mostly terrible. Why has no one cracked the code? 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z In the three-night mini-series “Rebellion,” serious historical drama goes up against tedious soap opera, and the battle ends in more or less of a stalemate. Review: ‘Rebellion’ Pits Soap Opera vs. Drama of the Easter Rising 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z The usual escape-before-the-big-blast stuff ensues, augmented by some fairly tedious family dynamics. Movie Review: ?Journey 2: The Mysterious Island,? Starring Josh Hutcherson 2012-02-09T23:49:47Z There were no public hissy fits, no tedious pontificating from the Piers Morgans of the world. Perspective | Amy Schneider’s gift to America was bringing her whole self to ‘Jeopardy!’ 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Some talkbacks are tedious, some are contentious, but others are lively, surprising, even moving. David Mamet Doesn’t Want to Hear From You. Do Other Playwrights? 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z And it also gets off to a tedious start by rehashing familiar arguments about older Democrats’ efforts to shrug off the party’s peacenik image, dating back to the Vietnam War era. Books of The Times: ‘The Obamians,’ by James Mann 2012-07-09T14:15:28Z But despite some tedious passages, “Heimat Is a Space in Time” takes an intriguing approach to history that remains refreshingly rooted in primary sources. ‘Heimat Is a Space in Time’ Review: All History Is Personal 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z Apology for recycling tedious punk cliche has not been forthcoming. Sleeve notes: Gaddafi's musical taste hangs over the world of pop 2011-03-04T12:43:47Z Outsourcing: pay experts to do all the tedious, unpleasant bits necessary to grow little darlings – including paying for potty training programmes at $3,000 a pop. ‘Snowplough’ and six more controversial parenting techniques 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z All the controlled substances in the world couldn't improve a viewing of the execrable "Don Peyote," a tedious, incoherent look at a paranoid stoner's emotional and spiritual unraveling. In the unappealing 'Don Peyote,' end times can't come too soon 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Eyman’s book aims to be far more comprehensive than those earlier works; at times, it feels too comprehensive, doggedly chronicling more forgettable Wayne movies and offering tedious asides about the financing of various films. ‘John Wayne: The Life and Legend,’ Explains a Star’s Power 2014-03-24T21:54:48Z The conflict is not a tedious confrontation with reality in which the young realize they cannot be artists or be as free as they thought or have as much agency as they dreamed. If Lena Dunham wrote a memoir 2012-07-22T16:00:00Z So the Josh half of this show’s central joke grows a little tedious. Review: ‘The Comedians,’ Starring Billy Crystal and Josh Gad 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z What they do is painstakingly slow and often tedious, and often subject to revision. Honoring Art, Honoring Artists 2011-02-06T02:08:17Z I imagine it's still going to be really tedious. How stars endure the 5-hour Creative Arts Emmys 2012-09-14T13:54:13Z In all the videos, he approaches even the most tedious day-to-day tasks of the kitchen with curiosity, glee and a cartoonish exuberance. How a Teeny-Weeny Chef Became a Great Big Star 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Instead, however, the rest of “Kings of the Dance” shows the most tedious aspects of ballet today. Dance Review | 'Kings of the Dance': Men Dancing vs. Male Centrality 2010-02-22T06:00:00Z Death by the repetitive execution of tedious tasks thousands of times is a true risk, and pain is an effective jailor. From bureaucratic drudgery to prison labor, “Andor” shows how exploitation leads to the Dark Side 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z You sometimes have to be banal, tedious; make the rhythm go soft and slow, give the mind a rest. ArtsBeat: Drawn From Life: Sheila Heti Talks About "How Should a Person Be?" 2012-07-11T15:44:33Z O.K., so we don’t necessarily think of the programs that distract from our tedious commutes, that accompany us as we run errands and prepare meals, as a staple of American life. 11 Perfect Podcasts for the Fourth of July 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z There’s not even a driveway, which makes things convenient for the baddies who stage a sodden, tedious home invasion near the movie’s end. ‘The Commando’ Review: Mickey Rourke, Still Standing, Barely 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z I relish a deep and meaningful conversation, but find the small-talk element of big gatherings tedious. For introverts, lockdown is a chance to play to our strengths 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z While it can be a tedious task, it’s also uniquely fulfilling — and educational. She’s made 1,750 Wikipedia bios for female scientists who haven’t gotten their due 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z Or that his neighbour's son will watch a tedious video of a plastic bag blowing around for hours in the mistaken belief that it will make him look deep. The dreams in Inception look fantastic. But what would Leonardo DiCaprio make of these? 2010-07-09T23:10:00Z Even the book’s redactions are a tedious reminder of the government’s frequent haplessness. ‘Guantánamo Diary’ by Mohamedou Ould Slahi 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z The result was a mixed bag: some tedious, some inspired, some recycled old tricks, some totally fresh. Tectonics – review 2013-05-14T18:27:54Z The film falters along with Ally and Jackson’s relationship, gets tedious and trite – with the exception of the incontinence – and sometimes enormously boring. Why A Star is Born should win the best picture Oscar 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z The opening pages of any biography are often tedious, unless you are a fan of family genealogies and, in this case, overlong descriptions of the Yorkshire landscape. ‘Ted Hughes’: A controversial biography shows the poet’s darker side 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z My friend and I went to see the play "Constellations" and found it tedious and repetitious. ‘Constellations,’ With Jake Gyllenhaal and Ruth Wilson, Opens on Broadway 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z “It’s a troubling, tedious idea, but a very common one — rooted, I think, in a desire to be forgiven. A desire for a leveled playing field, wiped clean of guilt.” What to Read About ‘Green Book’ and the Other Best Picture Nominees 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z Mr. Xu was one of the countless workers from the countryside who travel to China’s growing cities seeking employment, only to be eaten alive by the tedious, pitiless demands of industry. Review: In ‘Iron Moon,’ Poets Who Know What Work Is 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Her clever online messages engage fans, while other stars post tedious comments about new projects, People magazine Senior Editor David Caplan said. Keeping up with self-made star Kim Kardashian 2010-07-09T14:35:00Z Now computers can do lots of tedious calculations on large data sets, and spam filters and internet recommendation-engines are "Bayesian" too. Etcetera: Steven Poole's non-fiction choice ? reviews 2011-08-05T21:55:00Z He even reduces Carson McCullers to an occasional walk-on role, while hangers-on are inventoried with tedious rigor. The shame and glory of Tennessee Williams in John Lahr's new book 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z When the young Sontag writes of a tedious night with her stepfather, then contemplates erasing the sentence, she decides against it. | 'Sontag: Reborn': Moe Angelos?s ?Sontag: Reborn? in Under the Radar - Review 2012-01-08T21:53:50Z In its formulation of these tasks not as tedious chores but as energizing exercises, it is in line with current discourse on self-care, in which moisturizing lotions are sacramental ointments. “Tidying Up with Marie Kondo,” Reviewed: The Organizational Consultant as Freelance Exorcist 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z Instead of building the plot around a tedious pursuit peppered with cutesy digital monsters — a misstep in the first two “Fantastic Beasts” films — the returning director David Yates and the screenwriters, J.K. ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore’ Review: The Plot Against Muggles 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z If anything, “Timbuktu” shows that power can be boring and tedious, as opposed to thrilling, especially if your subjects are neither respectful or deferential. A Movie That Dares to Humanize Jihadists 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z While a casual observer may find eight hours in this environment deeply tedious, it is a music community that prides itself on being cerebral. Brooklyn Mirage, a Mammoth Techno Club, Finally Opens in East Williamsburg 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z It was so tedious that I started taking Photo Booth snapshots of my own expression while watching it. I watched the “Teen Mom” porno 2013-05-07T20:41:00Z In the tedious process of leaving his hair be, Ashe struggles with its frank unsightliness while also reveling in an emerging look that speaks unequivocally to racial pride and a certain self-acceptance writ large. Review: Bert Ashe ponders identity and perception in 'Dreadlock Chronicles' 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z “That guy” is, of course, the composer Jonathan Larson and he died the day “Rent” was to begin previews, which is exactly the kind of tedious overexplaining that Ms. Klausner doesn’t waste much time on. Critic’s Notebook: Julie Klausner’s Podcast, ‘How Was Your Week?’ 2012-12-31T23:26:34Z Promotional Q&As often possess a dry, stilted air, which can get tedious over time. Art Garfunkel’s greatest interview ever: “Paul and Artie can be very squirmy around each other” 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Although soup is both tasty and nutritious, it can be quite tedious to make from scratch. The 4 best soups to try from Trader Joe’s right now, according to Reddit 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z Much of his music uses only one pitch, and his abrasively tedious Fifth Quartet centers on F. Notes held over long periods are shaded with microtonal fluctuations and abruptly interrupted by staccato segments. Music Review | Flux Quartet: At Bargemusic, Microtones of Annie Gosfield and David First 2010-03-15T06:10:00Z It was tedious, but the time spent staring at the ground also led to great conversations. A Photographer’s View of a Battle to Destroy ISIS 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Celebrity interviews are increasingly tedious and sycophantic, but to his credit, Corden has shaken that up a little. Carpool Karaoke: The Series – Apple's original TV is all stars and no substance 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z The rest of the way it's Shock Theater as gory jolt follows gory jolt with tedious regularity. 'The Thing': a warmed-over creature feature 2011-10-13T13:55:23Z Not through big ideas in Washington, D.C., but through tedious grass-roots whittling. Why the Death Penalty Is Dying: A New Book Tells the Surprising Story 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z Is there anything more tedious than listening to someone talk at length about a niche reality show that you have never seen? Perspective | I watched ‘Sister Wives’ for years. Now it’s finally paid off. 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z I am sorry to say that at points the book became tedious and I just couldn't get into it. The Last Minute by Eleanor Updale - review 2013-07-24T08:00:00Z The action is somewhat tame, and with easy controls and quests, it's not long before the game becomes tedious. Game On: Nothing comes easy in 'Dragon Quest IX' 2010-07-27T21:07:00Z Is it tedious to have to revisit your work with the Sex Pistols again? John Lydon, Angry Older Man, Reflects on Life as an Angry Young Man 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Don’t look for ambiguously tortured protagonists or tedious plot developments in “Othello.” A mesmerizing Iago drives Independent Shakespeare's scaled-down 'Othello' 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z The remainder were tedious. as JKR tried to prove her "serious writer" creds by killing off popular characters. ‘Game of Thrones’ Has Moved Past Its Blueprint, and That’s a Good Thing 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z The film’s shrugging disregard for historical context would be negligible were the romance not so tedious and clichéd. ‘Eiffel’ Review: Paris is for Lovers 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Either version requires care and attention, but home cooks are willing to set aside the time to make the tedious treats, Ms. Martínez said. Across Latin America, the Holidays Mean It’s Time for Buñuelos 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z But the work of manifesting rich people’s matrimonial whims, even though she’s figured out how to profit from it, has come to seem “tedious and stupid.” The Daughter of a Revolutionary Becomes a Wedding Planner. Drama Ensues. 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z On the other, it finally restored some drama to a Christmas chart race that, thanks to Simon Cowell, had become a tedious charade in recent years, over before it even began. Thatcher Ding Dong! chart campaign is puerile – but the best protest available 2013-04-11T11:46:33Z Though the tale, based on a novel by Harold Frederic, remains relevant to our time, the film is too self-conscious and tedious for the message it delivers. Movie Review: In ‘Copperhead,’ Opposing the Civil War Brings Trouble 2013-07-18T22:01:34Z An “incoherent, tedious, meandering and insensible pile of mixed-paper recycling” can come from anywhere. Lionel Shriver may not realise it, but greatness can come from anywhere 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z These scenes alternate with others in which she is dealing with the often tedious demands of her two young children, Leanne and Danny. Review: Carey Mulligan Tells a Harrowing Tale of ‘Girls & Boys’ 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z This means that the action is unpredictable and unfolds at a lifelike pace, which is to say it’s both absorbing and tedious. Watch the Absorbing and Tedious Simulations of Ian Cheng 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z If you watch one movie after another, that activity itself becomes tedious and thus unhelpful in passing time. He was dreading his 13-hour flight. So he asked experts for some tips. 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Maybe I’m being overly optimistic, but the episode seemed to finally signal the sort of emergence in Dany that we’ve all been hoping for, if only to end the tedious stalemate in Meereen. On 'Game of Thrones,' an Awkward Dinner and a Stony Encounter 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z To the landscape contractor and estate gardener, the leaf blower is a gift from God, saving hours of tedious raking and grooming. We know you love your leaf blower, but it’s ruining the neighborhood 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z Conversations are the best part of my job, because doing hair can be quite tedious. ‘Passengers treat me like a therapist’: the cabbie, the hairdresser and others on the secrets they get told 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z However, according to Oliver, being an agent can be a tedious job with hours spent alone patrolling large swaths of land. John Oliver, Will Arnett Make Honest Ad for Border Patrol 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z The online cancellation of an artistic giant can be a tedious subject, but in “Tár,” it acquires sneaky complications. Breaking Out of the #MeToo Movie Formula 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z Plantation owners divided the tedious process between their expert men and women, West African slaves, with men doing the dangerous work of clearing swamp lands, and women sowing the rice. In Charleston, Coming to Terms With the Past 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Besides, who needs all those tedious meetings when you can just use your column to tell everyone what you think they should eat? Perspective | Here’s what the government’s dietary guidelines should really say 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Most C.I.A. memoirs are terrible — defensive, jingoistic and worst of all, tedious. Review: ‘Debriefing the President’ Tears Into the C.I.A. 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z The rest of tends to the tedious, either because its supposed comedy is inert or involves slow motion eruptions of flesh and blood from fake gunshot wounds. Casa de mi Padre No Es Bueno 2012-03-15T17:31:43Z But there’s just not enough to grab onto, not enough insight or anecdotal depth to connect with these characters before the tedious B-plot shows up to distract and in the end disappoint. Why You Have to Play This Gorgeous New Game 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z If tedious in detail, Shephard's accounts of speeches to the North-West Conservative Women's Association, the spring conference, constituency luncheon parties, and agent's receptions highlights that vibrant Tory civil society. The Real Iron Lady: Working with Margaret Thatcher – review 2013-03-15T19:40:01Z We get a lot of tedious, unrealistic beauty that drives men insane or makes them homicidal or suicidal or all three. Review: ‘Beauty Is a Wound,’ an Indonesian Blend of History, Myth and Magic 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z George Lucas took the hinted-at mythical, ancient yet futuristic realm of his first films and filled in all the detail like a tedious nerd. JK Rowling should remember that less means more in the Potterverse 2011-08-20T23:05:38Z The movie touches on some worthy topics — sex, age, ego, desire, reason, insanity, death — but never focuses long on any of them: Some bits are amusing, most are simply tedious. Review: ‘The Genital Warriors’ Revisits Bygone Romances 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z The play is front-loaded, though, with diatribes by Buck that are tedious and untheatrical, even if you agree with them. Exponential Festival: Unexpected Theater in Unfamiliar Real Estate 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z That’s because it would be tedious to remove the panel after every use to tinker with the faulty mechanism. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: New York, from the bizarre to the truly bizarre 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z These sorts of arguments — that we are living in the world that X made — have moved from the tedious to the odious. Review: ‘Seinfeldia,’ on Why We Still Can’t Escape ‘Hello, Jerry’ 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z British newspaper The Telegraph called the film a "tedious loop of beatnik debauchery." Kerouac's "On the Road" hits screen in Cannes debut 2012-05-23T12:51:47Z She manages to make a hash-infused trip to Turkey with two Frenchmen seem tedious. Alice Waters got us to eat healthy. What more can she teach us in her new book? 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z The art tests assessed proficiency in drawing pictures and making crafts, many of which were tedious, presumably to test patience and dexterity. My 5-year-old’s elite Japanese “cram school”: Kindergarten exam prep is a mother’s test, too 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z She fears that recovery will be boring: not merely that it will be a tedious experience to undergo, but that being in recovery will transform her into a dull person. Can Sobriety Be as Interesting as Addiction? A Writer Wonders 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z It’s an origin story, which is too bad, but at least relieves a reviewer of tedious explanatory duties. Review: ‘Ant-Man,’ With Paul Rudd, Adds to a Superhero Infestation 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z A tedious, misjudged marriage of Olympic opening ceremony, Eurovision half-time show and most recorded nightmares, Worlds Away is set in a mysterious land of make-believe. Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away – review 2013-01-31T22:30:02Z As reported by CNN Business, Chipotle has now launched the "Autocado," a robot "designed to perform the more tedious tasks involved in creating the chain's guacamole, including cutting, coring and peeling avocados." What the is an "Autocado?" Chipotle debuts a guacamole-preparing robot 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z The mainstream fantasy — sex, drugs, hard-core partying — usually trumps the more tedious reality of musicians striving for success but often becoming trapped by it. Film: ?The Runaways?: The Girls Who Kicked In Rock?s Door 2010-03-12T04:40:00Z George Martin said it was quite irritating; quite often music historians say it’s a bit tedious, a bit of fluff. ‘Sgt. Pepper at 50’ Artists on How the Beatles’ Album Inspired Them 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z And the deeper themes of the novel — parental rejection, death, guilt, the evil within — are mostly lost in a tedious exposition of family backstory that takes up much of the 50-minute first act. Review: ‘Frankenstein,’ at Royal Ballet, Complete With Dissection 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Watching the Cullens pose and smile in their modernist digs, gathered around the piano with frozen aristocratic languor, grows tedious. Movie Review: ‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2’ Ends the Series 2012-11-15T23:24:23Z Brian Sewell in the Spectator was more waspish: "At his best his essays recall the breadth and interest of Aldous Huxley's, but rarely their acuity; at worst they echo the tedious maunderings of Will Self." Book reviews roundup: The Rosie Project, The Prince, the Princess and the Perfect Murder and Lost, Stolen or Shredded 2013-04-19T18:19:01Z Read about why he and Chris Brown are not the best of friends , and why Bloc Party are "tedious". Wireless 2012: festival preview 2012-07-03T12:15:00Z The last act, therefore, becomes a rather tedious wait for the comeuppance of colleagues who were all inexplicably thicker than both us and Martha. TV review: Silk, Heston's Mission Impossible 2011-02-23T08:00:05Z Dressed in fine clothing, young Washington spent tedious hours here sitting on a footstool and awaiting his owner’s whims. In (and around) Fredericksburg, Va., walking the steps of a slave’s Trail to Freedom 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z It has the potential to be incredibly tedious. Ricky Gervais isn't the Golden Globes host we want – but the one we deserve 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z Or maybe they’re distant cousins to all the lyric-deficient punk songs that seem to get stuck on a cluster of monosyllabic words in hopes of getting us unstuck from our tedious lives. Perspective | Playboi Carti made the album of the year. Playboi Carti made the album of the year. Playboi Carti made the 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z I tried to make the tedious parts easier. Advice from a home-school veteran: Ditch the schedule and let your kids play 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z By all accounts, making the album was a grueling, tedious and intense process, both physically and emotionally. “He could be brash; he could be harsh. He was very motivated”: The real story behind Fleetwood Mac’s “Tango in the Night” 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z In this book’s more tedious pages, of which there are many, he announces, “I am humiliating myself.” Books of The Times: Shame on Me, and You for Taking Pleasure in It 2011-08-02T21:23:10Z Bad screenplay structure, unsnappy "snappy" dialogue, bland characters blandly played, flat, tedious direction. 'One for the Money': Paging Dr. Izzie for a career transplant 2012-01-27T18:25:05Z In 1965, unhappy with how he’d been treated in The New York Review of Books, he told Robert Silvers of that journal that dealing with him was “inching, tedious, and impoverished as spit.” ‘Selected Letters,’ Norman Mailer’s Correspondence 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z Few things are more tedious than a health bore, but secretly I was beginning to enjoy the novelty of being someone who takes care of herself. 5am ice baths and a strict vegan diet: my year of living (very) healthily 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z And that is when you will discover just what a shocking, tedious hack you are. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: How to throw the book at writing a book 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z The title character of this tedious grade-school-to-grave drama, a photographer portrayed by Johanna Day, is said to take pictures that “hide as much as they reveal” about her personality. Review: In ‘Joan,’ a Photographer Tries to Focus Her Past 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z Instead of that, though, we get tedious ruminations on religion to no discernible coherent conclusion. Magna Carta Holy Grail – a first-listen review 2013-07-04T14:23:37Z This might have been a tedious way to spend four months, but what was being tallied and assessed was the handiwork of Pablo Picasso. Swiss Freeports Are Home for a Growing Treasury of Art 2012-07-21T18:52:48Z Riveting and exhausting, fascinating and relentless, brilliant and tedious, it is a mesmerizing exploration of synchronicity, patterning and rhythm. Dance Review: Repetitions Build Drama With Rhythm and Gesture 2011-06-14T23:56:46Z I can admire Feldman’s spare, slow-moving aesthetic in moderation, but I find his larger works unbearably tedious. Music Review: A Marathon Performance (Aches, Too) 2014-04-29T21:11:41Z Even though we can all agree that rents are too high, and that the only equalizer is death, Mr. Dendy’s premise grows increasingly tedious. Review: ‘NewYorknewyork @Astor Place,’ a Multilayered Production 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z It's the very speed at which something so artful in design, so ironic in idea, turns so tedious that is so nettling. 'A Dame to Kill For' is a sinful waste of a sequel 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z The reality about alcoholics is that they’re boring and tedious, and I’d spent enough nights in pubs with drunken boys to know it was not something I’d ever want to be caught up in. film: Much Taller, Still Plastered 2010-08-27T19:23:00Z For all the weaknesses and sometimes tedious minutiae of his monumental biography, it remains an important contribution to the history of American science fiction. ‘Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with his Century,’ by William H. Patterson, Jr. That brings me back to Fantasy Life, which initially struck me as the most frank and yet most tedious collection of video game chores yet. In Fantasy Life and Other Games, Jobs and To-Do Lists 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z While their destination, never fully revealed, is somehow as much for the body as for the mind, this narrative line gets tedious. Dance Review: Geometry in Motion, With Costumes 2011-02-17T23:16:24Z It’s a tedious, uncertain process but one that store owners believe they can’t afford not to do. Secondhand Shoppers Worry About Their Favorite Local Spots 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z At first, Pyle’s concept is intriguing, but the competition gimmick grows tedious. Review: Fighting for the Right to Dance Giselle 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z Marks: Well, Anne, that turned out to be a lot more tedious than I had hoped. Review | Two critics debate a rare rehashing of a revised ‘Macbeth,’ singing witches and all 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z It quickly became tedious, but maybe that’s because he stuck to the script on the TelePrompTer. MTV Video Music Awards 2014: Best and worst moments 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z As you may surmise, the book can be fascinating but at times a hair tedious. Review | Tom McCarthy’s ‘The Making of Incarnation’ is a mind-bending international caper 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z “It was really one of the most simultaneously tedious and mournful things I’ve ever done,” he said. David Rakoff’s Last Deadline 2013-07-03T16:16:53Z Q. Most of the movie fare coming to my small-town multiplex is mainstream Hollywood drivel, tedious remakes and unfunny, unsophisticated comedies. Recycled Films and Bitsy Screens 2011-05-22T00:43:01Z Then there's the tedious audiophilia and the notion that vinyl records sound better. Let's stop this nostalgia for the 'golden age' of the album 2013-02-15T15:40:05Z Maybe it’s about heeding the advice of a certain epic poet from antiquity: “It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told.” Music Review: Conversation for Four, With Homeric Accents 2011-02-10T00:15:10Z Emotions play across faces weathered by age and bonded by long experience, and the wonder is that a story this threaded with sickness and decline is neither tedious nor depressing. ‘Diane’ Review: A Vibrant Tale of Love, Sisterhood and Decline 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z One with a touch of genius but a tragically brief life is the term “boiling the ocean,” meaning engaging in a tedious, complicated, long-term project. Perspective | Gene Weingarten’s definitive guide to the ‘nothingburger’ 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z His son, Cicero, is swooped up by Rose at an early age and grows into a huge, dreadlocked, tedious professor in Maine, his college’s “miraculous triple token, gay, black and overweight.” Books of The Times: ‘Dissident Gardens,’ Jonathan Lethem’s New Novel 2013-09-11T19:49:43Z “No, I used to find it tedious, but now I find it rather comforting.” Review: ‘Happy Birthday Doug.’ Here’s a Vodka Stinger. 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z The rest of the characters, and all the subplots, are tedious and witless and played absolutely straight. Is Renee Zellweger's Netflix thriller the best trash TV show of 2019? 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z Didn’t we just spend an election season enduring this man — a bold truth-teller to some, a tedious self-promoter to others — and his Cassandra-like warnings that President Trump was going to win? Michael Moore Says He Wants to Change Minds. So Why Is He on Broadway? 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z A baggy, tedious mess, occasionally redeemed by the two leads. Review: ‘The Present’: Even in Russia, It’s Hard to Turn 40 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Trying to orient every little specialty bulb is tedious and unnecessary. Perspective | Planting bulbs offers a bit of hope for better things to come. Even this year. 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z For the first 14 months, Kidd did an exhaustive amount of research, a process she describes as “both tedious and wondrous.” Did Jesus Ever Tie the Knot? A New Novel Considers the Question 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z The journey there is a slow burn, tedious but revelatory in the end. Review: A Choreographer Who Excavates Misalignment 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z He said that planning the tip was less tedious and more of a "creative outlet" for him, while he was stuck inside during his first year of college. Man who went viral for eating Chipotle in all 50 states says he ‘never got tired of it’ 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z Even on I'm a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here they can occasionally lapse into the tedious golfcentric patter of the seasoned light entertainer. Saturday Night Takeaway v The Voice: this ratings 'battle' is no contest 2013-03-21T13:10:51Z Lewis and Fleming are thankless parts, which may be appropriate to a show about women who rule, but it doesn’t make their whiny company less tedious, despite the talented actors playing them. Review: In ‘War Paint,’ Sing a Song of Face Creams 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z The chapters on exact email wording to attract partners get tedious, and advice on preparing for a swinging experience — from hygiene, to clothing, to manners — is similar to the regular dating world, and not revelatory. ‘Swingland’ Offers Peek Into Kinky Sex Underworld 2013-10-17T14:36:25Z Part II isn’t a joyride like the original; it’s a tedious math problem, a rehash, lacking spontaneity and subtlety and involving multiple versions of characters. Happy “Back to the Future” Day 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Much of what is made in law offices are tedious instruments of commerce: contracts, loan agreements, multipage memorandums. Cultivating Art, Not Argument, at a Los Angeles Law Office 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z Writing in The New York Times in November, Manohla Dargis called the film an “apocalyptic folly” that “cracks the planet like a nut, laying its every creeping thing to inevitable tedious waste.” DVDs: Another Trippy Rabbit Hole 2010-02-27T03:01:00Z I’m living in a temporary place for reasons too tedious and painful to get into here. Charlie Kaufman Is Sorry, He’s a Bit Distracted 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z AM This may be heartless, but somebody needs to say it: the Beardy Brothers at the bar are the least interesting part of this show, and their troubles are tedious. TV highlights 18/06/2012 2012-06-17T18:59:01Z But the concept, by not developing, becomes tedious rather than disturbing, and the choice to stop short of actual nakedness seems a failure of nerve. Review: ‘Titicut Follies’ Tries to Deliver a Shock to Ballet 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z “The action is especially tedious and predictable,” he wrote. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘A Christmas Story’ and ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z But instead of innovating, the show at the start saddled Mr. Spacey with a tedious batch of jokes about his insecurity at being host. An Uneven Night for Kevin Spacey as Tonys Host 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z “I don’t think there was ever a moment he thought the process was tedious,” she said. Bernard Waber, Children’s Author, Is Dead at 91 2013-05-22T03:22:28Z It was the tedious expunging of the blackness. The Governor Who Partied Like It’s 1884 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z The part of the reserved, suffering genius can be tedious, but it’s transfixing to see him peer out from behind the ice wall he’s built since childhood, and to see Virginia chip away at it. Punch-Drunk Love: Masters of Sex Moves Up a Weight Class 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z Sorting through it involved not only the process of formatting and mastering the audio but also even more tedious chores like scouring hours of onstage banter to identify unlabeled tapes. Fugazi Live Series: A Post-Punk Band?s Archive of Shows 2011-11-25T23:52:59Z You get the feeling the film is daring you to wince or take offense, but for the most part, its tasteless provocations are simply tedious. ‘Ninja Badass’ Review: Kill Bad Guys, Save Hot Babes, Look Silly 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z Still, even those, tedious though they are, show a few Gondryesque touches, like a flash drive in the shape of a piece of sushi and a chopped-up car plowing through cubicle partitions. | 'The Green Hornet': Have Cool Car and Mask (and Sidekick), Will Travel for Justice 2011-01-13T22:53:25Z This, as you can imagine, becomes very tedious, very quickly. Showtime's 'Happyish' mostly just selfish and smuggish for now 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z There’s the feeling of flying – in fact, the reality of flying – without any of that tedious business of getting to an airport and climbing into an aircraft. 10 of the world's best public transport rides: readers’ travel tips 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z The excellent actors play each step of their part to maximize tension and amplify the stakes, but if you remove the dressing of performance, their jobs are really just as tedious as Kim’s. We are all Kim Wexler: “Better Call Saul” and the painful realities of mid-career crisis 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z “The . . . Washington . . . Post,” he mutters absent-mindedly, as if calculating where he is in the tedious but necessary round robin of back-to-back interviews that is the modern movie media tour. Mel Gibson proves a tad touchy on his ‘Hacksaw Ridge’ comeback tour 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z While there are no guarantees that a working code will be available, these shopping tools quickly not only find codes, but also perform the tedious task of copying and pasting them one at a time. Nine tricks for getting the most out of online coupon codes 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z Thankfully we have moved beyond tedious questions about the "likability" of fictional women, because the most interesting characters rarely are at all times. Brit Bennett's "The Vanishing Half" and 4 more must-read novels out in June 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z I get where my husband is coming from to.... by contrast, watching any of the humans is tedious, boring and devoid of any tension. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 4: Truth and Consequences 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z A tedious symptom of this was the joke that sustained many a comedian through the decade: you couldn't tell the boys from the girls any more! Old music: The Barbarians – Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl? 2012-05-28T11:07:20Z The books on their lists always felt like a tedious chore. Michelle Rhee: Make summer reading lists fun and educational 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z If that required tedious long hours listening to adolescent girls’ gossip, fine. Skout’s minor problem 2012-06-19T23:20:00Z But next to Birmingham’s rich, detailed narration of Dostoyevsky’s life, with all of its paradoxes and tortured ambivalences, Lacenaire’s extreme self-regard quickly becomes predictable, even a bit tedious. How a Murderous Poet Inspired One of Dostoevsky’s Masterworks 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Over the course of a marriage the status quo is bound to evolve, or life would be tedious indeed. I want to have a fourth child, but my husband has put his foot down 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z It's certainly better than showing at great length Mary's tedious years of imprisonment. Mary, Queen of Scots: who sexed up this royal soap opera's dossier? 2011-02-04T09:15:00Z These Las Vegas adventures are a sequence of perfunctory stunts: entering the penthouse from the roof on tied-together sheets, Chow’s escaping by parachute and the tedious chasing that pads out the movie. Movie Review: ‘The Hangover Part III,’ With Bradley Cooper and Ed Helms 2013-05-22T22:02:42Z For me, that seems like a tedious bore. "I'm a Scottish witch, I think": Shirley Manson on the prescient lyrics in Garbage's dark new album 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z But what follows, for both characters, is rambling, tedious, opaque. Dance Review: Christopher Williams Works at Dance New Amsterdam 2010-06-09T00:18:00Z But the idea of doing the same thing “over and over for a whole year felt like it would be a little tedious for the audience, and probably would get old for us,” he said. Trent Reznor contemplates the future, the road 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z And absent the requisite hilarity, this single-issue tactic quickly becomes tedious, leaving you with a limp sex comedy that feels as cinematically played out as the dusty charm of Austin itself. Review: In ‘Social Animals,’ Stalled Lives and Sexual Frustrations 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z So basically our "live red-button coverage of the ceremony" was live red-button coverage of a radio broadcast, which was roughly as tedious as it sounds. Olivier theatre awards: the BBC should be red-faced over its red-button coverage 2011-03-14T17:53:50Z It was long — the final hour didn’t exactly fly by — but “La Substance” made for a hallucinatory experience equally illuminating and tedious. Dance Review: ‘La Substance, but in English’ Tweaks Consumerism 2014-01-13T23:29:50Z And as much as I like being on a music show, it does get a bit tedious when it’s just singer after singer after singer. Simon Cowell on Joining ‘America’s Got Talent’ 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z This is why the tedious road trip more than halfway across the country. Facing death on the mountain: What my father taught me on his last great climb 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z It has been painstaking, often tedious work but exciting as well, allowing Norich to feel, she said, “like a combination of sleuth, explorer, archaeologist and obsessive.” How Yiddish Scholars Are Rescuing Women’s Novels From Obscurity 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z It is possible to appreciate the cleverness of Mr. Dodin’s approach yet initially find it tedious. Review: In ‘The Cherry Orchard,’ the Myopia of an Aristocratic Family 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Quickly, a tedious interview becomes an exhausting micro-version of the movie “Groundhog Day” in which after every question, the interview begins again. Recalling Bob and Ray, Who Paved the Way for Today’s Deadpan Humor 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z “We have survived the flu epidemic of 1918, and fought in four or five deadly United States wars. But at last we will be destroyed by a collection of tedious words.” Review | With ‘The Night Watchman,’ Louise Erdrich rediscovers her genius 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z With a somewhat tedious diary and epistolary format, the story spans a seven-year period beginning in 1905: The sisters are in their early 20s, immersed in their circle of artists and intellectuals. Stephen May’s ‘Wake Up Happy Every Day,’ and More 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Highly recommended for those tedious train journeys our politicians have to make between the centre of power and the source of their mandates is James Montier's The Little Book of Behavioral Investing . Advice for a new government 2010-05-07T23:07:00Z “Alternative facts”: The term manages to be tedious, ridiculous and perilous at once — a real sign of the times. Why Fighting Fake News With the Facts Might Not Be Enough 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z The resulting show, I’m sorry to say, achieves the singular feat of being simultaneously frenetic and tedious. Review: ‘Paramour’ Brings Cirque du Soleil to Broadway 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z But ultimately “In the Shadow of the Maggot” is a somewhat tedious exercise in nostalgia and revved-up mimicry. Art in Review: JOHN BOCK: ?In the Shadow of the Maggot? 2011-08-04T22:00:07Z But as the mood shifts from sex comedy toward loftier, more somber matters — money, loyalty, family honor — “House of Gucci” manages to become both overwrought and tedious. ‘House of Gucci’ Review: Murder, Italian-Style 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z But it’s embarrassing to see how hopeful he was about us: Asimov thought computers would have freed us from the most tedious forms of labor by now. When Science Fiction Comes True 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z It remains a masterwork of style and emotional breadth, told economically, without tedious explanation. A sparkling start to American Ballet Theatre’s D.C. engagement 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z If it sounds as if project books are usually tedious, that’s not the case — some are quite good. A Canadian Poet Channels a 7th-Century Scottish Hermit 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z Whether you buy this double meaning or just take the guys at their word, "Nitro Circus: The Movie 3D," a self-made infomercial for the group's live touring show, is a tedious ride. 'Nitro Circus: The Movie 3D': Step right up for 'stupid' human tricks 2012-08-08T22:43:04Z Most of the characters in Mr. Mee’s play are allowed to expound on this question, with well-recycled opinions and at tedious length. Review: In ‘Big Love,’ Fleeing Tradition Becomes a Messy Escape 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z There was something reductive and tedious in the endless conversations that I found myself having. Confessions of a Prep-School Feminist 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z It’s all very complicated — and a little tedious. | 'Seven Minutes in Heaven': At Here Arts, Steven Levenson?s Play About Teen Desire 2010-06-13T21:49:00Z It was beyond tedious, he says, and the 37th president’s “obsessive-compulsive repetition” proved maddening. John Dean, sex machine? And other new revelations from the Nixon tapes. It involves a lot of complicated medical jargon, details of bodily functions, and tedious waiting. Life with Cancer in “Dani” 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Ms. Stuart frequently plays with the oblique and the tedious, often with thoughtful results. Dance Review: Meg Stuart?s ?Blessed,? at New York Live Arts - Review 2012-01-14T00:28:29Z Black is a master at world-building, conveying integral details without that information ever seeming tedious or encyclopedic, whether you’re well versed in faerie or a newcomer to the genre. Secrets, Lies and a Murder (or Three) in the Latest Y.A. Crossover Novels 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z The angel’s simplistic speeches, delivered in between her grunts and groans, are tedious in the extreme, especially as the farcical juxtaposition between her preachy words and the circumstances in which they are uttered grows thin. | 'Lick But Don?t Swallow!': ?Lick But Don?t Swallow!,? Part of Under the Radar - Review 2012-01-12T23:58:02Z It was boring, tedious, self-indulgent, hypocritical and insufferable. Oscars Show Growing Gap Between Moviegoers and Academy 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z At my age, the business of air travel becomes very tedious. Evan Parker's musical utopia 2010-04-22T21:35:00Z And the long stretches of so many small pieces of paper can become tedious, making the show feel at times like a temple for Basquiat buffs who want to fetishize his every scrawl and doodle. Review: Jean-Michel Basquiat’s ‘Unknown Notebooks’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z This lack of individual characterization means that “Bull” would fast become tedious if it lasted any longer than it does. Theater Review: Mike Bartlett’s ‘Bull,’ at 59E59 Theaters 2013-05-03T02:00:01Z As Simon Le Bon points out, making videos was so tedious that for a certain kind of artist they were an open invitation to take drugs and drink. Alexis Petridis on MTV's wild years 2012-10-07T19:31:01Z A welcome bit of push-back from a previously tedious character, and I only hope that he can be nudged somehow into “Fatal Attraction” territory, whatever the implications for Downton’s rabbits. 'Downton Abbey' Recap: Thomas and the Heterosexual Household 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z It toggles between two discordant registers: exceedingly tedious and slightly unhinged. In ‘The Room Where It Happened,’ John Bolton Dumps His Notes and Smites His Enemies 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z The confrontation is repeated ad nauseam, proving “Obstacles” to be a tribute that's more tedious than tender. Break dance meets ballet in an explosive Jacob Jonas program 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z As the violent, manipulative alcoholic and the vain, snobbish fabricator punch and counterpunch in “A Very British Scandal,” the opaqueness of the characters gets tedious and increasingly mystifying. ‘A Very British Scandal’ Review: Claire Foy Gives Up the Crown 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z There’s a fusion here between modern melancholia and those romps where potential lovers keep encountering each other in skips through time, which sounds tedious but works somewhat splendidly, once the series gets going. Review | Netflix’s ‘Maniac’ is an engaging, retro-futuristic romp through the subconscious 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z If it sounds tedious to witness an author grapple with tension for 470 pages, that would be an accurate forecast of the reading experience. ‘Booth’ Pushes an Assassin Off Center Stage 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z Carrying on in this manner would quickly become tedious, so I'm going to fast forward. Irvine Welsh's Booker prize attack makes scant sense 2012-08-21T09:58:32Z The problem with “Chess” revolves around its tedious schematic construct. Review | ‘Chess’ has the best cast of any musical this season. But the show itself has issues. 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z “Writing is such a tedious and challenging thing,” he said. Leon Bridges shares his evolution to ‘Gold-Digger Sounds’ 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z Do I select Papers, Please, the amusingly drab, playfully tedious computer game that put me in the role of a border agent in a fictional Eastern European police state? ArtsBeat: Game Theory: The Best of 2013 2013-12-31T13:01:14Z This year, we get ho-hum Haneke, courtesy of a Dutch Funny Games knockoff which tickles happily for the first 40 minutes, then gets niggly, then annoying, and finally just a bit tedious. Cannes 2013: Borgman - first look review 2013-05-19T18:16:00Z There are also unexpected new jobs, such as de-mining the Ukraine-occupied areas of the Donbass, a tedious but important job done predominantly by women. Prom Pictures of Ukrainian Teens on the Verge of an Uncertain Adulthood 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z Somehow Mr. Cole and Mr. Krane, with the help of Phillip George’s unimaginative direction, have turned the bizarre experience of a lifetime into something tedious. | 'The Road to Qatar!': Let?s Sing About People Who Don?t Speak Like Us 2011-02-04T23:19:12Z Much of her time was spent on worthy but paint-dryingly tedious activities. A Low Point for the Monarchy, in a New Season of ‘The Crown’ 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z Transformers 4 is likely to be identical to the three previous Transformers movies – a gormless spectacle of such relentless destruction that it quickly becomes tedious beyond words. Transformers 4: why I can't wait for Wahlberg 2012-11-14T14:59:48Z “Mmm, listen to this Frank Sinatra record. That ol’ Frank sure could sing,” said Big, who thought that saying things such as this made him look suave and classic rather than cliched and tedious. With Carrie and Samantha’s spat, we finally get to watch the real Sex and the City 3 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z Carmen Christopher pairs his deadeye glare with a similar, Tasmanian devil abandon, but his sketch about a robot who does high kicks while passing out water does become tedious. Annoyance Theater Moves Brooklyn Into Comedy Theater Scene 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z It's not like they just want equality or tolerance or to be left alone, and there is absolutely zero discussion of gay rights or any other tedious social issue in this movie. "I Love You Phillip Morris": Too gay for 2010? 2010-12-02T01:30:00Z My application process was tedious but not too long. The day I said goodbye to a country I could no longer call home 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z Modern takeoffs occasionally pop up, though many are tedious. From a giggle of girls to an infirmary of punchlines The sudden spread of words seeking to add color and excitement to the tedious processes of bureaucracy is not uncommon. Perspective | Gene Weingarten’s definitive guide to the ‘nothingburger’ 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z It unsteadily treads the line between the effectively excruciating and the plainly tedious. “When They See Us” Is Both Memorable Political Art and Misfired Entertainment 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z “It is comprehensive and detailed without being tedious, practical without being banal, impeccably well judged and unusually rigorous. But the main title hints at a sensibility deeper than friendly advice.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z And this is because we’ve had to go through the tedious cookie-cutter rigmarole of learning who these people are and how they came to get their skills. To Infinity War and beyond: are we in danger of Avengers fatigue? 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z The video reignited the extremely tedious and never-ending debate about reclining your seat. Space austerity: plane seats and change rooms needn't bring out our worst 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z It’s long, tedious and far too self-regarding for its own good. One for the money: the great actors who slummed it in daft movies 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Well, not fun – technically it was tedious and creepy – but you get the idea. Men & Motors goes to the scrapyard 2010-03-30T11:01:00Z A staff member answered, “tedious,” when asked what it was like to walk through an airport with Lewis, who was frequently stopped by admirers. Success of Ginsburg film inspires CNN look at John Lewis 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z When he carries on alone, speaking to God, questioning and suffering at great, monotonous length, his weakness becomes tedious, as does the film. Review: Questions and Prayers Go Unanswered in Scorsese’s ‘Silence’ 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Individually they'd plainly be tedious, but together the Hairy Bikers have found something more difficult to replicate. The Hairy Bikers: charming and enthusiastic, or seriously annoying? 2011-02-10T13:37:00Z It is a cruel fact that children enter the urgent drama of adolescence around the same time their parents plunge into the tedious wild of middle age. ‘The Listener,’ by Rachel Basch 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z When I first tried playing Fallout 4, I found the post-apocalyptic wasteland formerly known as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts too vast, the settlement-building too tedious and the side missions too grind-y. The Video Games That Got Us Through 2020 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z But it also lapses into stretches of elementary material that anyone interested in lesser-known aspects of the war might find a bit tedious. Television Review: Maps, Letters and Battles in ‘Civil War: The Untold Story’ 2014-04-04T19:34:16Z But then it’s time for the next effect in an ultimately tedious succession. Review: ‘Sleeping Beauty Dreams’ Is a Tawdry Tech Fantasy 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z I loved the final beat where Don comes up with the idea of the Coke commercial, but his multi-episode road trip was tedious and anti-climactic. 'Mad Men' Finale: Readers Respond 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z You may not like it or “get” it, but it is in every way the opposite of the stale, tedious, market-tested drivel you so rightly complain about. Recycled Films and Bitsy Screens 2011-05-22T00:43:01Z The people itching for the new “Twin Peaks” seem to have forgotten how many of us slinked away from it during its tedious second season. ‘Muppets,’ ‘X-Files,’ ‘Twin Peaks,’ ‘Full House’: Why can’t we ever move on? 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z This jarring change from comedy to tragedy is unsettling, and, as “Dim the Fluorescents” languishes in the women’s bitter breakup, becomes tedious. Review: ‘Dim the Fluorescents’ Unites Two Roommates in Art and Commerce 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Once this bit of bogus suspense is cleared up, “The Double” becomes a tedious, impenetrable cat-and-mouse game involving Russian double and triple agents. | 'The Double': ?The Double? With Richard Gere - Review 2011-10-27T23:00:56Z But there’s a time for optimism, and then there’s a time when a character’s dogged, sunny faith becomes absurd and tedious. 'Fear the Walking Dead' Recap: Wake Up, Travis 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z The long, tedious hours are spent listening to familiar favourites: classic soul, mutant R&B and avant-pop classics. Audio advent calendar: The Hundred In The Hands playlist 2010-12-02T14:09:00Z Planning things in advance feels like making appointments and that tedious act itself is a turn-off for me. The art of making (and not making) plans 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z “This task is tedious, and lacks the drama of demonstrations, but it is necessary for meaningful results.” Seeing Martin Luther King Jr. in a New Light 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z His private-eye job of catching straying spouses makes him lament “the tedious variations on betrayal and disillusionment that brought a never-ending stream of clients to his door.” ‘The Silkworm’ by J. K. Rowling, as Robert Galbraith 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Following The Killer’s actions is a passive activity, which may be why the film is so tedious. David Fincher cast the wrong "Killer" in the Netflix thriller that lacks the auteur's usual edge 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z This predictable troublemaker tends to the tedious, and the stereotype is the real albatross in . Albatross: Just Call Her Emilia Bad-Elia 2012-01-12T19:03:29Z He sang the praises of “incremental reporting,” the tedious stories that inch a larger story forward, and said that he viewed this type of work as important, “especially now.” ‘We are not fake news’: At a Trump-free correspondents’ dinner, White House press has its say. 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z Blame the source material: a title role both tedious and impractically difficult; a repetitive libretto sitting somewhere between coming-of-age adventure and dark comedy; a singing dragon. Review: In the Met’s ‘Siegfried,’ Singers Transcend the Staging 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z I accept that tedious projects are probably made marginally more fun by giving them dramatic names. Is a catchy title really the best means of safeguarding nuclear security? 2010-12-19T00:06:14Z He was a reclusive, complex, sometimes vulnerable man, often a very tedious drunk but with a wired sense of humour and wit. Partners in crime fiction 2011-07-22T08:00:02Z While deep in The Guermantes Way, didn’t I sometimes want to choke Proust for his tedious attention to some ridiculously small splinter of life? All writers should read Robert McKee 2013-04-10T20:47:00Z To Ms. Ayubi, a restaurateur in Adelaide, Australia, it was always the most tedious part of preparing the dish. For Afghans Abroad, Nowruz Is a Chance to Reflect 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z The novel was tedious, the plot feeble, the characters unconvincing, their fate uninteresting, the point lost; the essay was flimsy, lacking in substance, poorly argued, poorly written. Yann Martel 2010-06-22T19:00:00Z She recounted the frustration of dating straight men from Tinder, the hours she’d spent that weekend, locked in tedious conversation with an unkempt man who looked nothing like his profile photo. Best of 2018: What a dominatrix knows about #MeToo 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z But whereas Prokofiev marshals his with a fair degree of variety, his maverick Brazilian near-contemporary hammers away at his rhythmic figures with tedious insistence, and the result is a banal finale. SSO Chamber Series offers radiant reading of rarely-played Strauss sonata 2011-04-23T17:10:05Z Having dismissed ethical consumers as tedious weirdos, study participants were less angry about child labour than before. Ethical consumers are unattractive and boring, aren’t they? | Oliver Burkeman 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z Under the guidance of his tedious friends, Hemingway ditched his young wife and son at the first lick of a literary triumph. Hadley Freeman's 10 awesome women: from Katharine Hepburn to Miss Piggy 2013-04-22T15:38:00Z It's not that the Strokes sessions sound like they were bad – just depressing and tedious. The Strokes' Angles: has making an album ever sounded more depressing? 2011-03-11T11:36:27Z But the film can also be tedious and inadvertently comic, as when Mr. Capaldi munches on grapes while delivering his grandiose oratory. Peter Capaldi Narrates ‘Inside the Mind of Leonardo in 3D’ 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Rushdie’s style once unfurled with hypnotic elegance, but here it’s become a fire hose of brainy gags and literary allusions — tremendously clever but frequently tedious. Salman Rushdie’s ‘Quichotte’ is a shambling ‘Don Quixote’ for our deceptive era - The Washington Post 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z "This remarkably tedious new novel," was how she began. 'This remarkably tedious novel': Michiko Kakutani skewers Martin Amis 2010-05-11T15:07:00Z Without resorting to a tedious back story, the movie positions Leatherface as a monster and a victim, bullied into his dirty work by his cannibalistic family. ‘Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ and the Lessons Few Horror Films Get Right 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z But after marching to protest the war in Iraq, Mr. Chaudry grew more interested in political activism — and he found his law studies to be tedious and unfulfilling. 3 Young People to Watch in Theater This Spring 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z It’s as if they provide a needed release from the strictures of reality, of the tedious work of making meaning. The author of ‘Cat Person’ has more stories to tell. Can they live up to the hype? 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z The boring, tedious agony of being a middle-aged woman, and particularly an actress, in our culture is ripe for that kind of exploration, for that kind of truth. Martha Plimpton Can’t Say Enough About Pamela Adlon, the Tate Modern and Abortion Rights 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z What does he actually add to any situation, apart from making it about 30% more tedious? Yoda, fair enough. But what if Jar Jar Binks strikes back with his own film? 2013-02-05T15:45:26Z Reviewing that film in The New York Times, Andre Sennwald called it “dramatically tedious” but “a gallant and distinguished outpost in an almost uncharted domain.” Technicolor at 100: Saturation and Subtlety in Filmmaking 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z Ms Beard is a sure-footed guide through arcane material that, in other hands, would grow tedious. What a strange lot 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z When people hook up, she thinks, it often means new and more tedious people are suddenly around. In Elif Batuman’s ‘Either/Or,’ a Witty and Perceptive Young Woman Returns 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z On the final day — the very best day, as everyone knows — the last task is a tedious one. Orange peels, love notes and deodorant: What gets tossed on the last day of middle school I'm thinking of The Ring more than Tristan, there's an awful lot of psychology in it which I find tedious. Composer Thomas Adès: 'Wagner is a fungus' 2012-09-28T21:48:01Z It’s funny and abrasive, but also coy and, in the end, a bit tedious. ‘Red Rocket’ Review: All My XXX’s Live in Texas 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z Next weekend marks the first anniversary of the inauguration of Donald Trump, which means you are going to face a barrage of tedious first anniversary stories. Perspective | ‘Dumpster fires’ and other ways to evaluate Trump’s presidency through Google 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z "It was not meant to be serious in any way. Just poking fun during an exhausting and tedious press tour." Jeremy Renner, Chris Evans apologize for slut-shaming Black Widow character 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z When cooking is less tedious and time-consuming, eating is more fun. The viral feta pasta dish everyone's raving about is even better without pasta 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z Where our students' knowledge is coming from and how bizarre, tedious, and antiquated our mechanisms of knowledge production appear to them. "Blacks and Jews" authors on Chappelle, Kanye caught in the "face of Black antisemitism" loop 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z He’s also adept at what must be the tedious business of playing scenes with Happy, who zips around the screen. Review: ‘Happy!,’ or, Law & Order: Imaginary Friend 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Beyond the tedious rap sessions that should have stayed on the cutting-room floor, the director's substitution of period pop for orchestral music makes the whole film seem smaller and less special. When should a director stop messing with a movie? 2010-08-17T00:20:00Z Road trips can be tedious, no two ways about it. Perspective | Pro tips for planning a long-distance road trip 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z What in this sometimes compelling, often tedious assortment of parables, poetry, dramatic monologues, cautionary tales and horror stories is true, and what is fantasy? ‘ZeroZeroZero,’ by Roberto Saviano 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z If you are even mildly versed in such topics as Tulipomania, the English landscape style, the creation of Sissinghurst Castle Garden, it seems cursory and, in the absence of stronger connecting threads, actually quite tedious. Review | What got lost in one writer’s garden 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z “It would be tedious and costly professional work” to separate the lenses and then cement them back together. How to restore antique opera glasses 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z Up until the tedious and bombastic finish, though, you can have a pretty good time. Review: ‘Star Trek Beyond’ Sticks to Its Brand. That’s Not Necessarily Bad. 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z Perhaps the best news here was that the long Menuet for four women, which so often proves tedious, was alive with enthusiastic freshness. New York City Ballet Performs Tchaikovsky-Balanchine Works 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Boaty people tend to be terribly tedious, I find, but the Spalls are delightful. Chris Ryan's Strike Back and Timothy Spall: Somewhere At Sea 2010-05-06T07:00:00Z Mr. Love’s book ranks high in gossip and readability, even if it’s stuffed with tedious chart positions for Beach Boys records. In ‘Good Vibrations,’ Summer Fun Soured by Mike Love’s Score Settling 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z I drink to make other people seem less tedious; something you might consider when reading this. Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens 2010-05-17T22:00:00Z Without design, a life narrative becomes a tedious jumble; with too much design, it starts to merge into fiction. Review | A tale of a family bound by food — and hunger 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z The vocal lesson became tedious, but the start of the dance itself quickly refocused the room. A New Iteration of Reggie Wilson’s ‘Moses(es)’ 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z I remembered Jack's boring daddy issues from the first season; back then they struck me as a spectacularly tedious attempt to give our clean-cut hero some depth. Screen burn 2010-05-28T23:41:00Z Yes, there’s a rather tedious subplot involving a jealous co-worker, but the writing is good, you get a real sense of the industry and the era. In Praise of the ‘Career Romance’ 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z There is affable talk of pets, gym regimens and work reassignments, all grounded in tedious, quotidian detail. ‘Is This a Room’ Review: Why’d She Blow the Whistle? 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z Just look at how it fell for Hot Tub Time Machine or the impossibly tedious Mega Shark Vs Giant Octopus when they were released. Hobo With a Shotgun's net strategy is an own goal 2010-04-19T11:49:00Z He deftly turns what could be a tedious acting exercise into a complex performance, full of life, despite being technically dead. Harry ever after: tracing Daniel Radcliffe's evolution, from Potter to flatulent corpse 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z At his trial — and through several tedious reappearances that could make you a death-penalty supporter — we endure long, repetitive discussions about the mystery of why he killed the woman he loved. Review | J.M. Coetzee’s ‘The Schooldays of Jesus’ raises more questions than it answers 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z “A lot of kids entertainment is pitched down. It’s pretty tedious,” Mr. Griffiths scoffed, shaking his head. Andy Griffiths, the Down-Under Kids’ Author Known for His Butt Jokes, Now Builds and Builds on His Hit ‘Treehouse’ Series 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z It’s also one with vivid peaks and valleys; some of the meandering and byplay and hunting for the next knick-knack tucked away in a crate gets just a touch tedious. Clowning around with yesterday’s junk in ‘The Object Lesson’ 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z Early on, we see dancers hiking their hips sideways to achieve maximum height in extension; and this prepares us for the basically strenuous, graceless nature of this tedious array. Mikhailovsky Ballet, Full of Stars at Lincoln Center 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z Humour is a beautiful, crucial gift, which lifts us from the tedious, the painful and the terrifying aspects that life presents. Getting a laugh out of disability 2010-04-28T12:00:00Z But this tedious, unfunny, screamingly unoriginal romantic adventure film is so flimsy and so insubstantial that it’s practically vaporous. ‘Ghosted’ Review: A C.I.A. Meet Cute 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z If it were not for the fact that these people are so tedious in their drunken self-absorption, you might be tempted to reach for the bottle yourself. The Sun Also Rises 2010-08-15T20:31:00Z With such imaginative staging, a scene that can often seem tedious flies by. Modern 'Figaro,' timeless 'Turandot' in Sydney 2012-03-11T05:02:10Z Eventually, the kitten was extracted, and, because of my son-in-law’s subsequent tedious argument of insidious intent, it suddenly belonged to me. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: The price of living with The Great Himself (a.k.a. Barnaby the cat) 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z The spells he must perform are tedious as well as physically and psychically punishing. Hell House 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z Her sets also prioritize nuance, spinning the minuscule quirks and foibles of people she knows or meets into comic characters: faux-progressive men from her social circle, or tedious “five-time” vegan revolutionaries. For Lolly Adefope, Comedy Is in the Details 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z A weekly session will be a filter for your worst, most tedious “memoir material.” Salon’s guide to writing a memoir 2013-01-20T23:00:00Z A lot of shower hosts are opting for gift-displays anyway over the tedious public unwrap. Carolyn Hax: Does an ailing grandma turn a European jaunt into a guilt trip? 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z We know she'll come around eventually — this isn't a movie with tricks up its sleeve — and the wait grows tedious. The Greatest: Susan Sarandon as Another Mad, Sad Mom 2010-04-02T09:20:00Z The most stable feeds are usually ones trying to sell something, and that’s just tedious. Five Artists to Follow on Instagram Now 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z That used to sound like a super boring topic, only of interest to the most tedious political wonks. How to un-rig an election: In "Slay the Dragon," citizens fight back against gerrymandering 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z It's virtually impossible to talk about obscure albums without things descending into a tedious bore-off. The best obscure albums: Guardian writers pick their hidden treasures 2013-01-10T17:11:02Z "As in a theatre, the eyes of men/ After a well-grac'd actor leaves the stage/ Are idly bent on him that enters next/ Thinking his prattle to be tedious." Gordon Brown's exit was worthy of Shakespeare 2010-05-12T18:00:00Z I would rate this book a 9/10 because in some parts it was a bit tedious, but the rest was brilliant! The Windvale Sprites by Mackenzie Crook - review 2012-07-10T14:00:00Z But so much of the film is tedious. "Zero F**ks Given" embodies the willful tedium of a depressed flight attendant 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z In “Come and Take It” Mr Wilson tries to extend his moment of fame by recounting, in tedious detail, the process of creating his gun. Barrel of deaths 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z And the so-called drama is often repetitious and tedious. At Glimmerglass Festival, ‘The Magic Flute’ Is Among the Reimagined 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z The Snack Wraps were an immediate hit, enough so that it kicked off a Snack Warp War akin to the ongoing, and frankly tedious, Chicken Sandwich War between fast-food chains. It's time for McDonald's to bring back the Snack Wrap, their best lunch item ever 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z So, as Pollan asks, why shouldn't we get corporations to do the really tedious things like chop the onions? Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation by Michael Pollan – review 2013-05-04T11:00:02Z She interviews with the manager in a cramped office and rarely makes eye contact as she offers despondent answers to his tedious queries. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Shots of tedious chore time are kept to a minimum. In ‘Utopia,’ on Fox, Real People Build an Unreal World 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z “I think it’s complicated for kids whose parents are famous or actors or whatever. It’s probably quite cool and quite tedious at the same time.” Ewan McGregor: Dahling, He’s Halston! 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z And Mr. Raines, though saddled with some of Goldman’s more tedious “smart” dialogue, exudes the fever-pitched heartiness you see in politicians just before their careers crash. | 'Follies' : ?Follies? on Broadway - Review 2011-09-13T02:01:08Z It's sad if something is marketed in such a way that men are not going to pick it up but it's their loss… It's tedious, very restrictive and it's not something I engage with. Maggie O'Farrell: 'My writing is tougher and much better since I had children' 2013-02-23T17:00:01Z Christmas specials—and always include the tedious Schweddy Balls sketch, which isn’t even a good NPR parody—but the pure of heart will not forget its brilliance. Twelve Feel-Good Seasonal Pop Classics, with and Without Christmas 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z It moves with either incomprehensible abruptness or tedious slowness, especially at supposedly suspenseful moments. Review: ‘Jellyfish Eyes,’ a Children’s Film From Takashi Murakami 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z It’s a characteristic moment for this admirably intentioned, sometimes funny, often tedious meditation on the topic of menstruation. Review | A little earnest absurdism about bodily functions goes a long way in the Welders’ ‘LadyM’ 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z Coring brussels sprouts and separating the leaves is a tedious chore second only to shelling and peeling fava beans. For Brussels Sprout Lovers, a Handy Corer 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z “Most music up until about 20 years ago was always recorded on tape. It’s more of a process. It’s a lot more laborious, a little bit more tedious.” ‘No Pen, No Pad’: The Unlikely Way Rap Is Written Today 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z Stitching the Best Bits Vocal production can be a tedious task, requiring patience, indulgence and discipline. Kuk Harrell, Justin Bieber’s Vocal Producer 2012-06-29T12:43:09Z What saved the performance from ever becoming tedious — as was the case at the best of the Happenings, for that matter — was its humor, its genially aggressive physicality and its playful intellectual charge. Music Review: The Knights Echo John Cage’s Happenings at the Stone 2012-06-05T21:28:02Z It can be tedious listening to artists promote their own genius and salute their own hard work. Oasis and the Fading Dream of the Nineties 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z This week on his path to love, slogs through yet another tedious group date with approximately 9,432 girls playing beach volleyball for love. The Bachelor Watch: Sean Lowe Kissed The Girls — and Made Them Cry 2013-01-22T14:19:55Z These laments for the more rumpled, rough and spontaneous city he moved to can sometimes strike familiar notes, or lead him into tedious byways. Theater Review: Mike Daisey Vents in ‘All the Faces of the Moon’ at Joe’s Pub 2013-09-12T05:06:25Z Instead, see “The Spring Fling: First Love,” six short plays so tedious that they may actually serve a purpose: You’ll find yourself thinking, “If that can get staged, my work must have a chance.” Theater Review: ‘The Spring Fling: First Love,’ at the Access Theater 2014-05-05T21:19:25Z There are many moments of exposition that might be tedious in another context. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Comfortably Mousetrapped 2012-01-26T14:30:40Z And the more longueurs Banville provides in order to reinforce the Jamesian mood and manner, the more tedious the novel becomes. Whatever Happened to Isabel Archer? ‘Mrs. Osmond’ Picks Up Where Henry James Left Off 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Beyond the mystique, the job actually called for more tedious work, and more research-based knowledge, than was generally understood. An arsonist was terrorizing rural Virginia. But he had a peculiar way of doing it. 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z "It's an uncomfortable aspect of having to play the character, having to shave three-quarters of my eyebrows and maintain them every day plucking them – it's very painful and tedious." Zachary Quinto: 'Playing Spock was about cultivating an inner life' 2013-05-04T17:00:02Z They also carry another cargo, particular to the series: guilt, recrimination and depression, built up through eight episodes of stylish but tedious and formulaic family drama. Review: Sean Penn Has Space Suit, May Travel in ‘The First’ 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z The results are lengthy sentences with no clear purpose and tedious digressions. Voyage-tales collection blends atypical narrative, history Even abridged to a quarter of the original, its long central section struck me as repetitive, tedious and cartoonishly crude. Review | The action-packed saga ‘Monkey King: Journey to the West’ gets a modern take 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z Instead of being rom-com cute, my story of becoming a parent was heartbreaking, tedious and dominated by scenes of exhausted women packed into the fertility-clinic waiting room. ‘False Positive’ and the Horror-Filled Truth About Fertility Treatments 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z “Mission Drift” is as thick on economic and historical data as it is on allegory, which could be tedious. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: The Empire Crumbles 2013-06-28T17:06:22Z A lot of it is very, very tedious, repetitive and dull. A letter to … My 10-year-old son, who needs to hear a few home truths 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z The I.R.S. doesn’t tax these because, well, it’s tedious to determine their value. At Start-Ups, the Free Lunch Is Yours for the Making 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z You have reached the point in your parenting life when your status has shifted, irrevocably, from hero to tedious fool. Why your teenager thinks you’re an idiot 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z But this compressed long afternoon's journey into, well, late afternoon grows tedious too soon; you want the Cowans to get on the elevator so we can all, finally, leave that apartment for good. Stage-to-film 'Carnage' elicits claustrophobia 2012-01-12T22:44:13Z Variety praised Depardieu's "audacious performance" while the Hollywood Reporter called the film "scandalous, hilarious and somewhat tedious". Gerard Depardieu on Welcome to New York: 'In all of us there is a monster' 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z I remember free parties, terrible come downs and hangovers, agonizingly tedious office jobs, etc. Frankie Boyle gets satirical – and Two and A Half Men star says: stop watching 2012-11-27T15:18:44Z How these mixed nuts collaborate with and fool one another involves much strutting of assorted, sometimes tedious, comic styles. | 'Anything Goes': A Glimpse of Stocking? Shocking! 2011-04-08T02:01:03Z "It's gruelling and it's tedious, but it's worth it." Beach Boys' children form tribute band 2012-07-10T11:42:23Z Between swigs of water, Genia, 69, from Greenwich, highlighted the benefits of such events for older people – a less tedious way of maintaining mobility than aerobics, she said, and less exposing too. Big Dance takes steps towards the London Olympics 2010-07-12T14:20:00Z Instead of expounding a tedious origin story or staging an epic battle for apocalyptic stakes, “The Wolverine” focuses on a specific and self-contained adventure in a richly imagined place. Movie Review: In ‘The Wolverine,’ Hugh Jackman Broods Again 2013-07-25T21:12:49Z Its use derived from the Monty Python sketch, with its annoying Vikings singing "spam" every time the foodstuff is mentioned, and so became "a word for other kinds of tedious, repetitious, irritating behaviour". Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet by Finn Brunton – review 2013-05-31T06:29:01Z If this sounds tedious and frustrating, it is. T Magazine: Keeping Time 2012-11-26T14:00:26Z But tedious as films of that sort were, it’s possible, these days, to get a tiny stab of nostalgia for the clearer world that engendered them and then, over time, disappeared. ‘Seeking a Friend for the End of the World’ and Other Apocalyptic Movies 2012-06-15T18:30:00Z When, inevitably, Hatchet escapes and begins offing his captors, the movie briefly jolts with shamefaced energy before settling into a tedious chase through a warren of gray concrete. ‘Black Site’ Review: Stranger Danger 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z Instead, the movie unfurls as a tedious series of bloody deaths and witless dialogue. ‘Violent Night’ Review: Yucks, Not Yule 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z The BBC also drew ire from the press, which called coverage of Sunday's river pageant "inane" and "tedious". BBC gets 2,000 Jubilee complaints 2012-06-06T19:49:10Z Before that there were all those tedious books about how the humble catheter/salted peanut/yo-yo transformed our understanding of the cosmos forever. A healthy dose of sick lit 2010-09-03T09:09:00Z Critics, film theorists and discerning viewers held strong views of their work, which could be seen as either poetic or tedious. Jean-Marie Straub, Uncompromising Filmmaker, Is Dead at 89 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z But knowing everyone else is also slowly dying of overexposure to tedious songs and ridiculous costumes is motivation enough to keep watching to the bitter end. 10 reasons why we're watching more TV 2013-03-18T18:02:29Z "It was most likely a tedious process," she said. Museum: Fast action may help save Picasso painting 2012-06-20T01:16:04Z That movie, a classic of its kind, reminds us that the true story didn't need tedious Hollywood embellishments, or "Hollywood Mexican." 'The Perfect Game': Little League underdog tale goes off base 2010-04-15T20:46:00Z But as the focus of dynamic narratives, saints tend to be as tedious as most monomaniacs. Review: ‘Joan of Arc’ and the Monotony of Sainthood 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z “I know you think we’ve been here before, and we have – isn’t it bloody tedious?” he said. Three years after Moonlight, why are awards shows still so white? 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z This worry disappeared one day early on when, in a public forum, he described my columns as “long, tedious captions for my cartoons.” Perspective | Gene Weingarten: An exit interview with my longtime illustrator 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z The long stretches of gentlemanly inaction that you find in cricket have been engineered out of baseball, while anything as tedious as a 0-0 draw is unheard of in American football. Sports writing just isn't our field 2010-06-15T09:59:00Z Mitsuki’s tedious middle-aged life is drawn one tableau at a time. ‘Inheritance From Mother’: A must-read novel about the tangled bonds of motherhood 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z There’s no tedious wait for the superhero powers to show up. Pulling punches: why origin stories keep superhero films from soaring 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z Some of that will be fun, and some tedious, and some frustrating, but all in all, it’s likely to be a good day. Motherlode Blog: How Do We Think About a Mother's Suicide? 2012-05-18T19:29:14Z But the comic pacing grinds to a halt for Kunrad’s harangue, at over 100 lines a monologue of tedious length, with heavy-handed puns on Wagner’s and Strauss’s names only adding pomposity. Music Review: Strauss’s ‘Feuersnot’ via Leon Botstein at Carnegie Hall 2013-12-18T22:30:36Z Billy Claven hopes getting a part in the film will help him escape his tedious and difficult disabled life. Things I Forgot I Remembered, The Cripple Of Inishmaan, If Only: what to see at the theatre this week 2013-06-08T05:00:18Z Squirming at its clichés this season, I actually found myself impatient for the nutty episode that introduces the Ku Klux Klan into showbiz dancing, but this piece renders even the Klan tedious. Dance Review: Paul Taylor Dance Company at David H. Koch Theater 2012-03-22T21:52:10Z There are few movie experiences more taxing than the picture that signals its eagerness to ingratiate, then spends minute after tedious minute tugging on the viewer’s sleeve to no effect. ‘Slumberland’ Review: A Land of No Enchantment 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z The monotonous push and pull of the choreography grew tedious, as did the repetitive footwork that seemed to live by a rule: when in doubt, add an échappé. Kathryn Posin’s Bulgarian Program 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z For a girl like me, performing a tedious, unrewarding office job—as so many women in the I.D.F. do—the Army was a deadening and alienating twenty-two-month experience. Bored to Death in the I.D.F. 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Their reportorial MO is simple, if tedious: They dig through social-media posts, old audio and video recordings and forgotten speeches, articles and books to find troubling comments uttered or written by the people they’re investigating. Said something you’d like to forget? CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski won’t let it go. 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z I found it tedious when it was on view at MoMA four years ago and overwhelmingly powerful when I saw it recently at Glenstone. Review | The country’s newest must-see museum is meticulous and quietly spectacular 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Equally fascinating and tedious, "Bellflower" is a lost cause of a movie, torn apart by incompatible ambitions. 'Bellflower': Promising drama undone by mayhem, pretension 2011-09-01T19:16:05Z That was “tedious,” he said: Time delays on the video platform meant being able to listen to only one singer at a time. A Choir Tries to Keep Its Christmas Tradition Alive 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z Solos and group dances were cutesy and tedious, with movement for its own sake failing to provide sustenance. A dance 'Tour de Force,' minus the force, at Segerstrom Center 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z It's desperately tedious and doesn't make sense, and I would like a refund for those hours of my life. Should Brad Pitt really win an Oscar for acting? 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Or a crossword, or even one of those tedious “word find” puzzles you see stupid people doing on the Metro. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: That time I challenged the president to a duel 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Blade Runner 2049 was beautifully designed, but quite frankly a bit tedious. 50 years of 2001: A Space Odyssey – how Kubrick's sci-fi 'changed the very form of cinema' 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z By utilizing the same documentary conceit as “The Office” to follow the boring lives of vampires living on Staten Island, this TV series captures an often overlooked truth about eternal life: It gets tedious. Why the Vampire Myth Won’t Die 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z A tedious section on Thomas Couture, the academic poohbah in whose studio Manet trained, starts the exhibition. Manet?s Reflections of Paris at a Cultural Peak 2011-05-16T13:33:21Z Cooking also features a lot of tedious, repetitive work, from grocery shopping to chopping vegetables, and tedious work tends to be foisted on women, so men can be freed to do more interesting things. Women still belong in the kitchen, according to the advice-seeking men of Reddit 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z All this imparted life to somewhat predictable alternations of recitatives and da capo arias that could have grown tedious. Music Review: A Generous Opening to the Lucerne Easter Festival 2011-04-11T17:51:16Z You might think the worst Star Wars movie of all time has to be The Phantom Menace, the film that introduced Jar Jar Binks, midichloreans and the tedious galactic senate. Has JJ Abrams ruined plans to expand the Star Wars universe? 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Ray, an online poker whiz turned live player who exists “in pursuit of a perfect machinelike neutrality toward outcomes,” and whose tedious sections read as if they were generated by A.I. Las Vegas, ‘the Most Honest City in America’ 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z I would rate this book a 8/10 as I think it's very page-turning, but some parts are slightly tedious. Sweet Hearts: Deep Water by Jo Cotterill - review 2012-11-07T15:00:00Z Quiz making was a relatively tedious process, especially then, when the content management system was buggy and public interest modest. Am I Gay or Straight? Maybe This Fun Quiz Will Tell Me 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z It’s a dangerous line to insert into such a tedious work, where the subject matter, which hints at the freedom and danger of taking flight, slips into melodrama, with couples bickering. Dance Review: Tiffany Mills Dance Company at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2013-06-04T22:11:54Z The supernatural chatter can grow tedious at times — the novel would have benefited immensely from some judicious pruning — but their voices gain emotional momentum as the book progresses. Review: ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ Shows a President Haunted by Grief 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z It’s very easy to conclude “I’m an introvert” when in fact what we should conclude is “my friends are tedious and I want some new ones”. 'I prefer being physically distant. What happens if I don't want to return to normal life?' 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z I found Murray's slugfests tedious - he moves like, well, a hippo - but enjoyed the two-dimensional shoot-'em-ups that Bentley uses to hack into enemy computers. Review: Sony's rascally raccoon Sly Cooper returns 2013-02-20T13:25:10Z Yet his tedious appeals to the “drama” and “aesthetic intensity” of evolution are so far off our credibility meter that it would be difficult to summarize our conclusions without sounding uncharitable. Former Christian fundamentalist: Science robbed me of my faith 2013-09-09T00:00:00Z If I’m honest with myself, my actual experience of office work was often tedious, the offices themselves dingy, relationships with colleagues clumsy and strained. Is Your Office Closed? Compensate With a Workplace Comedy 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z The temptations to write the task off as impossible, or to forget all about it as a tedious bore, will be almost irresistible. Unraveling my family's Cold War mystery 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z What is certain is that, even at more than three and a half hours, the fly-on-the-wall documentary Speth has culled from her time in the classroom is the opposite of tedious. ‘Mr. Bachmann and His Class’ Review: Learning From the Best 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z I felt it rushing past me, shoving in, like a tedious waltz. Modern Love: Modern Love: Revelations of a Feminist 2011-09-08T22:11:00Z Those hung up on the question of whether the latest news is good for the Jews always seemed not only hopelessly ineffective but also tedious. Is It Funny for the Jews? 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z These came across as tedious sonic streams of consciousness, in which the language of experimental jazz was subjected to the centrifugal forces of extended technique. Review: New Music Inspired by Christ’s Agony and Dating Apps 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z Hadelich is a sunny player, and here he gave radiant warmth and a veneer of thoughtfulness to a piece I tend to think of as tedious. Review | In festival opener, a small orchestra shows it deserves the spotlight 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z But now that tedious people are given to resisting the simplest of conventional courtesies, Miss Manners is grateful when it is in there at all. Perspective | Miss Manners: Announcing a ceremony that didn’t happen 2020-06-28T04:00:00Z And her overriding obsession with gastronomy and wine can get tedious and, as Jan Morris commented, “may drive readers of less urbane gourmandise all the more readily to the deep-freeze Ocean Pie.” A World-Class Writer and a World-Class Freeloader 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z Shows like Botched Up Bodies and Emergency Bikers and Police Interceptors and World's Busiest Border Crossing are on this week, and are all generic and tedious in equal measure. How to watch Channel 5 2013-07-24T14:49:35Z In his staging, Niesen retains Brecht’s title cards, the expository bits of narrative announcing what will transpire in each of the 12 scenes in this tedious two-and-a-half-hour epic. ‘Mother Courage’ Review: Selling Her Wares Amid the Havoc of War 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z The actual tourism slogan of the Central American nation is the far more boring and tedious “El Salvador Impressive!” ‘Yes, it’s Jordan’: World tourism slogans range from lovely to laughable 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z The Broadway production, a passion project of the composer Lucy Simon, was pummeled by critics, who described it as bombastic and tedious. 'Doctor Zhivago' Will Close on Sunday 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z I’ve got my Nook, and it’s the only way to remove oneself from the tedious experience of flying. Letters: Fliers? Reading List 2012-03-02T23:24:39Z But for the length of this gloriously tedious party they are truly anything but boring. Theater Review: ‘Ivanov,’ With Ethan Hawke, From Classic Stage Company 2012-11-12T03:00:00Z “Imagine how bad that guy’s pillow case smells,” he says of a tedious troll. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z There was no tedious self-righteousness on the night of the gala event. Men-only clubs and menace: how the establishment maintains male power 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z I know one or two comedians' spouses, and they accept their occasional appearances in standup routines as a sometimes amusing, sometimes tedious fact of married life. Long live those mother-in-law (and ex-wife) jokes 2010-10-04T13:24:00Z I remember it all being slightly tedious – except for lunchtimes, which were fascinating. How we made the original Murder on the Orient Express 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z Although “Asbo” is a more engaging book than Mr. Amis’s tedious last novel, “The Pregnant Widow,” it’s nonetheless a listless performance, especially next to similarly themed works like “Money,” “Success” and “London Fields.” Books of The Times: ‘Lionel Asbo: State of England’ by Martin Amis 2012-08-19T18:59:48Z Some people still find Rossini’s serious operas a little, well, tedious. Music Review: ?Mo?se et Pharaon? at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-12-01T23:50:57Z The trial itself was tedious — save the tiny wiglets with rattails, those were amazing — and there was far too much legalese for Matthew to explain. Downton Abbey Watch: Life is a Game 2012-02-20T13:45:28Z When he realizes it’s over, what follows is a hackneyed story of a tedious, lovelorn expatriate, pulling himself together and dragging us around with him. ‘Granada Nights’ Review: Growing Abroad 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z A show like “Early Shaker Spirituals,” say — an austere interpretation of an album of Shaker music — might strike you as thrilling or tedious, but either way the intensity of its interrogation is fascinating. Review: ‘A Pink Chair’ Explores a Polish Playwright, but Finds Little 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z In fact, it can be downright tedious: acres of wall space jammed with photos and film posters, all punctuated by dim projection rooms displaying bits of film. Wild architecture makes German cinema come alive at LACMA 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z In fact, I'm starting to get the impression that this Bagul chap is actually a bit tedious. Sinister? Not from where I'm standing 2012-06-20T10:33:00Z Grisly but not especially suspenseful, tongue-in-cheek without any real wit, “The Voices” aims to hit the intersection of horror and comedy but tumbles into an uncanny valley of tedious creepiness. Ryan Reynolds as a Killer in ‘The Voices’ 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Pain can be normalised until quiet fulfilment seems, if not entirely abstracted, just tedious. From Love to Girls – what TV's most toxic couples can teach us 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z Although tedious and inefficient — the way Miranda arrives on the island after the tempest suggests that she is the storm’s first casualty — this section turns out to be the show’s least awful. Dance Review: ‘The Tempest Replica,’ From Kidd Pivot at the Joyce 2012-11-29T22:27:36Z “The business aspect, and all the trappings of it, do get tedious. There’s no break, sometimes.” ‘It has to be hot. It has to be creative’: Don Cheadle on his 10-year quest to play Miles Davis 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z I’m capable of very long and very tedious arguments in bars defending that record. Rob Sheffield: “What I love most about David Bowie is that he celebrated the romance of being a fan.” 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z Rudin is a very hands-on theater producer, showing up repeatedly at often tedious show rehearsals and monitoring every aspect of a production. After Scott Rudin bullying exposé, there are mostly crickets 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z And I recognize that debates about greatness can quickly get tedious. Perspective | Maradona was great, and maybe the greatest. Can we make similar claims about artists? 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z Others called them tedious, fatuous, preposterous and exploitative. Tim LaHaye Dies at 90; Fundamentalist Leader’s Grisly Novels Sold Millions 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z Recently, he rebranded it for travelers as a way to avoid the tedious task of emptying their pockets for security. 2010-01-19T22:10:00Z Those were relatively informal concerts calculated to beat the heat, offering standard and lightish fare, which this genial British maestro introduced with witty palaver — often charming, occasionally tedious. Review: New York Philharmonic’s Summer Host Beats the Cold 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z But fulfilling expectations is often tedious, and Sam is not dead. My Friend Has Cancer 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z “We’re grateful” for the Wilkinson bequest, said David Grimaldi, an entomology curator at the museum, “but it does require a huge amount of time to do this tedious, careful work.” Antiques: A Wright House in Illinois Prepares to Go Public 2010-07-01T21:42:00Z The results are alternately thrilling, tedious and overwhelming. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z The music of Mr. Glass, whose 75th birthday is being celebrated this season, can certainly be tedious. The Week Ahead: Oct. 30 ? Nov. 5 2011-10-27T18:15:00Z But this is all window dressing, running the gamut from tedious to harmless. | 'Cavalia': A Celebration of Horses at the Meadowlands 2010-06-16T21:39:00Z As soon as Anna is old enough, she takes a tedious job working alongside “the marrieds,” measuring machine parts at the Brooklyn Naval Yard. In ‘Manhattan Beach,’ Jennifer Egan’s heroine dives deep for family secrets 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z In fact, the process of sitting down and sniffing — concentrating quietly on registering aromas, or fragments of aromas — is lonely, tedious and mentally exhausting. Will Fish Sauce and Charred Oranges Return the World Covid Took From Me? 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z |
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